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In most of his roles, De Paolis has only a few minutes to establish a character. But he does so with such skill (and without exaggerated theatrics) that even famous tenors and sopranos find themselves in danger of being upstaged in his presence. De Paolis seems able to play any...
Died. Michel de Ghelderode (real name: Aldemar Martens). 63, noted Belgian playwright whose darkling dramas on medieval Flemish themes (best known: Splendors of Hell, Pantagleize) foreshadowed today's "theater of the absurd," a wizened hermit who rarely left the "dream'' room where he wrote surrounded by sepulchral...
The holiday crowd of 6,500 looked as if it had been ordered from general casting by the director of a western movie. At the mile-high, five-furlong race track near Ruidoso, N. Mex., wizened Texas cowpokes in shrunken Levi's clutched $100 bills while they hunted for...
Still aflame with mad little mutinies, wizened Nazi War Criminal Rudolf Hess, 67, was entertaining himself in his cell in Berlin's dreary Spandau Prison* by wheedling cigarettes from his warders. "They know it's forbidden to give the prisoners cigarettes," explained one guard last week, "but whenever...
Not until 1955, while Aub was on a lecture tour in Mexico, did he "meet" J.T.C. By then, the painter, as Aub tells it, was a wizened, forgotten genius, the "missing link" of modern art, living like a peasant and "crossbreeding" with Indian maidens. Shunting aside his own work, Aub...