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Midget Auto. A three-wheeled, pne-seater auto, 67 in. long, 39 in. high, weighing 132 Ibs., is being manufactured by Egon Briitsak Fahrzeugbau of Stuttgart, Germany. With a plastic body, a 2.5-h.p. engine driving the front (single) wheel, and three speeds, the Briitsch-Mopetta hits a top speed of 24 m.p.h., averages 99 miles per gallon. The car is amphibious, has a paddle wheel attached to the front wheel for use when operating in water. Price...
Taxes & Dividends. Before World War II, Germany had a central stock exchange in Berlin. Now there are eight independent regional exchanges-in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Bremen-which traded $1.5 billion worth of stocks and bonds last year v. only $200 million in 1951. Twice since 1948 Diüsseldorf's stock and bond traders have been forced to move into bigger quarters because trading has grown...
...will compose and conduct two pieces for Stuttgart's festival of popular music, has agreed to compose and arrange the music for Roland Petit's fall variety show and to co-star with Chevalier in a 13-week stand at the Théátre Alhambra. But he still casts a wistful look back at the classical career he planned for himself. "It's difficult to be a composer of serious music," he says. "You have to be convinced that you're terrific, or you're nothing. It's not the same as popular...
...Stuttgart, U.S. Mezzo-Soprano Grace Hoffman was asked to sing Amneris in Aïda, despite the fact that she had to sing in Italian while the rest of the cast sang in German. She wowed the crowd. In Amsterdam, U.S. Coloratura Soprano Marilyn Tyler accepted a rush call to sing Violetta in La Traviata, although she sang in unpopular German while the rest of the cast sang in Italian. After the first act, a year's contract was offered to her. In Munich, U.S. Tenor Howard Vandenburg arrived unannounced, auditioned and was hired on the spot. All over...
...them, such as attractive Soprano Irene Callaway, who is making a success in Italy, arrived in Europe on Fulbright scholarships. Others got there by their own power, gladly took smaller salaries than they might earn at home for the satisfaction of treading the boards. "In the States," says Stuttgart's Mezzo Hoffman, "you can sing like an angel, but unless you get a break you can't find any place to sing. It's like being a bird and not being allowed to fly. Even at the Met, I'd sing two or three times...