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Died. Joseph Schildkraut, 68, Vienna-born actor who won star billing on Broadway in 1921 as the carnival barker in Molnar's Liliom, parlayed his talents into more than 60 screen roles, two dozen onstage, 80 on television, commencing with romantic leads in his salad days (Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Benvenuto Cellini in The Firebrand), evolving into character parts such as Papa Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Kurt Herbert Adler, 58, dynamic Vienna-born director of the first-rank San Francisco Opera; by Diantha Warfel Adler, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; on grounds of extreme cruelty; in Reno...
...months a year in San Francisco and devotes the winter months to scouting trips to New York and Europe. He often spends Christ mas Day in a hotel room talking to singers and agents; two years ago, he saw 42 operas in 25 cities in 44 days. Now 58, Vienna-born Adler traipsed across Europe until 1938, learning opera while lending his hand to such diversions as an Austrian production of Abie's Irish Rose. Then he came to the U.S. and, in 1942, signed on as San Francisco's chorus director. When Founder and Director Gaetano Merola...
Munch was little interested in teaching, weary from his long winter, remote from Tanglewood's earnest youthfulness. When Leinsdorf was appointed to succeed Munch last fall, Tanglewood's friends took heart: the 50-year-old Vienna-born conductor seemed just the man. "He has a festival spirit," said Bass Clarinetist Rosario Mazzeo, the B.S.O.'s personnel manager. "He has the most extraordinary set of qualities - his time is laid out by an IBM com puter, but he's available to everybody. He could manage General Motors...
Philosopher Demos was a great questioner, but good ones abound in all fields. One such is the University of Chicago's Vienna-born Friedrich Hayek, 63, professor of social and moral science, a noted traditionalist whose "radical" theories first drew national attention in a 1944 best seller, The Road to Serfdom, and later in The Constitution of Liberty (1960). Now returning to Austria to teach, Hayek was a burr under many a U.S. intellectual sad dle. Almost alone, he argued that welfare-state planning, however well intentioned, inevitably leads to expediency, coercion and loss of liberty...