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Guatemalan doctors liked Salvatore Lanza at first. A slender, high-strung Italian in his middle 30s, he was loaded with Old World charm. From his voluble talk, it appeared that he was a devoted scientist and surgeon, educated at European universities. About his specialty, plastic surgery, he seemed to know all there was to know. Since plastic surgery is a virgin field in Guatemala, several doctors gratefully accepted his services as a consultant...
This week a Christmas Eve audience watched the world premiere of Amahl and the Night Visitors on the largest TV hookup (35 stations) that NBC has ever strung together for opera. Like most Menotti works, Amahl is a one-man show-music, libretto and stage direction by the composer. The story is a simple Menotti mixture of melodrama and pathos, with more than enough invention to fill out 50 minutes...
...Esteemed Reichsführer." A far shriller and more demanding voice in Germany today is that of Adenauer's arch political enemy, Socialist Kurt Schumacher, 56. It is not the voice of cooperation, but the high-strung voice of a nationalist, a patriot gone zealot. Schumacher is a frail, cadaverous man of unexpected vigor. He gave his right arm to the Fatherland on the Russian front in World War I, lost his left leg following his ten years in Nazi concentration camps. In the Bundestag, where he holds great sway, he is a frightening performer. He jabs at every...
...still sounds angry, and his new novel, We Fished All Night, is written in the same hoarse voice. It begins with a strike at a big Chicago mail-order house, and ends ten years later with another strike at the same place. Between these two points, Author Motley has strung three plots. Jim Norris rises to the leader ship of the local union, almost cracks up psychologically (he has an urge to molest children), but pulls himself together in time to lead the second strike. Don Lockwood, a handsome Polish boy (born Kosinski), is torn between labor politics...
Producer-director Hans Richter assembled five of his fellow artists and allowed each of them to dream up a separate sequence for the movie. Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Alexander Calder each contributed an idea. Then Richter strung them all together with what--if logic be considered--is the most tenuous of threads. But, logic be damned, say the surrealists. And, in watching the movie, you are apt to accept their premise...