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Mobil, however, has been ham-handed in its efforts to buy another oil company. Some industry observers blame its failures on the insistence of Chairman Rawleigh Warner and President William Tavoulareas that they plan their own tactics without consulting outside advisers. Mobil lost out to Du Pont in the contest for Conoco by coming in with a low bid. Its initial $5.1 billion offer for Marathon in October was also immediately denounced as "grossly inadequate" by the company's president, Harold Hoopman. Said a leading investment banker: "If Mobil had bid $126 a share from day one, instead...
...setting is a decrepit building in a seedy district of Paris, not far from the rumbles and whistles of the Gare du Nord. Its inside walls are crumbling. Its seats are long, hard wooden benches, and the stage is nothing more than a dirt floor. Yet this unprepossessing site is currently selling the hottest ticket in Paris: to Director Peter Brook's radical version of Carmen, Georges Bizet's classic opera of love and death in old Seville...
Like the theater in which it is playing, called the Bouffes du Nord, this is a stripped-down, no-frills Carmen far removed from traditional opera-house conventions. It lasts just 82 minutes, with no interval, and uses only four singers, plus two speaking actors. The full orchestra has been reduced to 15 musicians. Everything unnecessary to the plot has been jettisoned in an effort to return to the sunbaked spirit of the original Prosper Mérimée novella. Gone are the choruses of soldiers and cigarette girls, as well as most of the opera's secondary...
What Brook has produced is not Carmen, but a critical commentary on Carmen-an opera about an opera. In this he has succeeded. In the 550-seat Bouffes du Nord, the drama has more power than it possibly could in a 3,000-seat opera house. Brook has chosen his singers as much for their acting skills as for their voices. By tightening the plot he creates dramatic situations beyond anything envisioned by Bizet's librettists (Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy) or even by Mérim&233;e. In this version, Carmen and Micaela...
Besides John Henry, other eminent geldings were Kelso, who made $1,977,896 from 1959 to 1966, and Forego, whose six-year career in the '70s brought $1,938,957. Today Kelso is employed in Maryland as Mrs. Richard C. du Pont's favorite saddle horse, while Forego is a pensioner in Kentucky. These are unusually fine fates for unusually fine geldings, and John Henry can breathe easy too. More typical are the fates of Neapolitan Way and Hugable...