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...kept his colleagues on an 18-hour workday, and his astonishing memory enabled him to pull the names and addresses of hundreds of loyal Communists out of an ever ready mental file. "When we set up the East Zone's first Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs," recalls Wolfgang Leonhard, a member of Ulbricht's original Berlin group who has since defected to the West, "Ulbricht assigned every department head and his staff-some 40 appointments, down to the motor-pool boss-in about an hour...
Since 1951, when Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner started putting Grandfather Richard's operas into modern dress, Bavaria's Bayreuth Festival has attracted more attention for its sets than for its singers. As the curtain rose on the festival last week, the singers were back at stage center. Not in a decade have there been so many distinguished debuts at Bayreuth -and never has this most intensely national of all German festivals appeared so amazingly Americanized...
Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...
During last autumn's presidential campaign, friends invited Walter Wolfgang Heller, chairman of the University of Minnesota's economics department to attend a Democratic dinner in honor of Candidate John F. Kennedy. Heller decided to stay home. "I wasn't feeling very well," explains Heller's wife Emily, "and we were both tired. We don't mix in politics anyway." But to Emily's surprise, Heller decided after dinner to go out after all and take a look at the man who might be the next President of the U.S. As Heller approached...
Faust, Part I (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), though one of the world's supreme classics, seldom reaches the New York stage; Hamburg's Deutsches Shauspielhaus production, done in German at the City Center, is the first in 32 years...