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...most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers-Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman (Countess Maritza). But beside their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall...
...VIEW OF MY OWN (214 pp.)- Elizabeth Hardwick-Farrar, Straus & Cudahy...
...line store in New York comes close to matching Korvette's Fifth Avenue in annual sales per square foot of selling space. By best accounts, Macy's does $130 to $155 per sq. ft., Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus $175, Saks Fifth Avenue $190-and Korvette's more than $300. At current rates, Korvette's first full-year sales on Fifth Avenue will easily top $30 million...
...SLAVE (311 pp.)-Isaac Bashevis Singer-Farrar,Straus&Cudahy...
...Some of My Best Friends. . ." (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $4.50) is the title of a just-published study of U.S. antiSemitism, by Benjamin R. Epstein and Arnold Forster, national director and general counsel of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (founded in 1913 to combat antiminority prejudice...