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...deposited them at the National Theater. There nearly a thousand spectators jostled fashion reporters for glimpses of the nation's best beaded, brocaded and beminked women. They gasped their approval when Jacqueline Kennedy stepped out of a limousine encased in the stunning pinks, golds and greens of a full-length Chinese brocade skirt, green velvet top and oriental stole...
...scoop in my life," he writes, "and it seemed to me, then as now, abysmally silly to break a neck by beating the opposition by a few seconds on a story." Gunther decided that the tumultuous personalities of Europe-Hitler, Kemal Ataturk, Léon Blum-deserved a full-length book. He did some legwork in Europe, grilled correspondents, composed and sent out a questionnaire he has used ever since ("What is the subject's attitude toward religion, sex, money? His pet hates, pet loves? His danger of assassination?") When the answers were in, Gunther wrote Inside Europe...
After studying the facsimile intensively and "thinking myself into Mahler's mind." Musicologist Cooke decided that he could see "the absolute coherence of the complete master plan. What I had deciphered was not a 'might-have-been' but an 'almost-is': five full-length movements in various states of textural completion, but all sufficiently coherent to add up to a magnificent Symphony in F Sharp; a symphony in two parts." Cooke's BBC version runs 65 minutes and according to his own complex figuring, the various edited parts of it are anywhere from...
...DRAMAS: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is the what-big-fears-you-have title of Edward Albee's first full-length play, dealing with a marriage problem (Oct. 13). Author of The Zoo Story, The American Dream, and The Death of Bessie Smith, Albee is the most talked-about young American playwright. The most promising young American playwright is probably Jack Richardson (The Prodigal, Gallows Humor), whose new play Lorenzo will star Alfred Drake in the story of a roving actor who finds himself involved in a blood feud between two towns and discovers that he cannot...
...popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall and gaunt, he mounted the podium and led the orchestra into a performance of Trauminsel (Isle of Dreams). It was his 43rd full-length operetta, and it was pure Viennese delight...