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...Bavarian stubble field stood leaders of the Crusade for Freedom, a private international organization pledged to keep the free world in contact with the peoples isolated by Communist rule...
...first time since Hitler, opera fans are trooping once again into the big red brick Festspielhaus in Bayreuth, the Bavarian shrine Richard Wagner built to honor his own music...
...revive Bayreuth, Wagner's grandsons Wolfgang, 32, and Wieland, 34, collected about $400,000 from the Bavarian government, radio networks and festival devotees. They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of the war. The Wagners also designed some imaginative props. Example: Fafner, the dragon in Siegfried, is a 30-foot, steam-snorting monster with bloody ten-foot jaws, and teeth a foot long. Mused Wolfgang: "Grandfather, in the sky, probably would not like what we are doing. But on second thought...
Berlin's critical bouquets and the resulting bustle at the box office are the best news Bavarian-born Egk has had in a long time. He got his start in 1926 when lie showed some pieces to Composer Kurt Weill, who recommended him for a job composing bits for a radio station. Nine years later Egk wrote an opera, The Magic Violin, which has become part of the regular repertory in German opera houses. Impressed, the Berlin State Opera hired him as a conductor. Under the Nazis, Egk's career throve pleasantly enough, although he got a stiff...
...Division were quick to get the word from the occupation troops: U.S. soldiers never had it so good. They can go almost anywhere and do almost anything without paying anybody. On a generous furlough schedule, they can run over to such recreation centers as Berchtesgaden and Garmisch in the Bavarian Alps on "temporary duty," stay in some of the world's most luxurious hotels...