Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They had spent the evening among sharpies and shills and slick-talking swindlers dedicated to the ancient shopkeeper's art of conning the customer. But London's theater critics were delighted. When it opened in the West End last week, Wolf Mankowitz' brash, breezy new comedy, Make Me An Offer, rang up just the sort of sale the playwright was bargaining for. "When the British musical finally finds its feet," said the staid Financial Times, "we may well remember Make Me An Offer as a landmark...
Mankowitz has exercised his self-reserved right so often that today he is less poacher than pro. Son of an East End trader who taught him that "the only good deal is one that shows everyone a profit," Cambridge-educated Wolf Mankowitz has made a good deal indeed for the British theater. He has brought it a bubbling British enthusiasm that pays off at the box office whether his shows are being polished in Director Joan Littlewood's East End Theater Royal or bargaining for big money on the other side of town. Even in the West...
Proud Boasts. Last April Frankfurt's Public Prosecutor Heinz Wolf identified the Puchert attack as the work of a French terror organization called the "Red Hand," and added that "it is highly probable that the Red Hand is an undercover section of French counterespionage." The Red Hand's leader, he said, was Jean Viary, 37, onetime inspector in the French Security Police. And one of his two chief assistants, added Wolf, is a Christian
...smell of tobacco emanates from the sofa cushions. Who is responsible--the butler, Susanne herself, or an unknown lover who sneaks in when the master of the house slinks out? Far be it from me to tell; I'll say only that Wolf-Ferrari here did for cigarette-smoking in 1909 what Bach had done for coffee-drinking in 1732 with his comic operetta, the Kaffeekantate...
...Secret is a masterpiece of its genre, which looks back to the charming 18th-century tradition of Goldoni and opera buffa. Although it is Wolf-Ferrari's most famous work, usually only the overture is done; so it is a welcome treat to have the whole work in a generally bright performance...