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Inconspicuous as it was, Otto's return brought a shrill outcry from the Austrian Socialist Party, which sponsored a three-hour strike by some 250,000 Austrian production and office workers, and then blamed "the unrest caused by Otto Habsburg's provocative entry." The Socialists have long talked darkly of the "threat" of a Habsburg restoration, though even the Habsburgs themselves are not expecting a royal comeback. Otto was exiled at the age of six. In the early years, his proud and persistent mother, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, tried every scheme to regain Habsburg honors...
...before he learns for sure that he is not a dangerous escaped lunatic being sought by the police. He is something much worse: a serious composer who has Sold Out to make tubs of money with a record company, only to find that the price of success is marital unrest in Mount Kisco...
...that's the first act--90 minutes of tedious exposition, interrupted at nitervals by flashy cabaret numbers signifying nothing, plus two musical attempts to represent the unrest which will shortly usher in Nazism. Some of the scenes and some of the songs are briefly engaging, particularly the "Pineapple" number sung by Miss Lenya and Jack Gilford, and Jill Haworth's opening carabet song. But nothing jells. The book seems to have been written as padding for an inspired score, and the score as the same for an exceptional book...
...master of ceremonies, does a brilliant love song with a female gorilla, titled "If You Could See Her Through My Eyes." The obvious parallel to Miss Lenya's relationship with Mr. Gilford gives the song a relevance all the other cabaret numbers lack. A song of popular unrest, "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," is later twisted into a grotesque Nazi rallying cry, and the meaning is again clear...
Artistic Identity. The troubles in Philadelphia are symptomatic of the unrest felt everywhere in the nation's leading orchestras. Two years ago, when the Philadelphia forbade its players to moonlight with any group larger than a sextet, Concertmaster Anshel Brusi-low angrily resigned, took one of the orchestra's musicians with him, and formed the 35-member Chamber Sym phony of Philadelphia...