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OSLO — American speed skating
star Eric Heiden, who won five gold
medals at the Winter Olympics,
Wednesday joined an amateur
Norwegian hockey team.
Heiden, 21, of Madison, Wis., has
not played hockey for five years and
he admitted he was having a little
trouble adjusting to skating for the
Manglerud Star first division team.
“It’s been quite some time since I
used hockey skates and I had certain
problems turning to the right,’’
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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1980
Heiden said after his first practice
session.
The new club assigned Heiden the
number “5” to coincide with the
number of Olympic medals he won
at the winter Olympics in Lake Pla
cid, N.Y.
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• state. Twenty to 25 percent of each issue
['he national org;r ):; ,of a new Jewish lifestyle magazine is
nded in 1960; the ^devoted to food articles and recipes
ipter was organizdr, — to the chagrin of some readers.
Membership is open; A male subscriber in Michigan re-
years-old and youni tently wrote editor-publisher Larry
j. “We’reinthepr%Arylh Rubin:
; (a chapter) undenJ *1 find your magazine quite appe
al School.” tizing but I have a beef with you.
iimpson said bothiTomToncl columns are a bit excessive
ericans for Freedom when one would satisfy my hunger,
ing ConservativesYou can earn your bread by adding
same candidates in the morc meaty articles of general in
is, but Nelsonsaidllif‘ l terest - To e gg y° u on even further I
not campaign to; think the whole thing is fishy and I
wish you turkeys would butter me up
by following my suggestion. Or are
you chicken?”
A day or so later, Rubin received a
letter from a woman reader on New
York’s Long Island. She complained
she’d expected “a Kosher ‘Bon Appe-
tit’ or a Kosher ‘Gourmet’” only to
find Jewish Living had become “a
Jewish newspaper in glossy form.”
“I cannot cook articles on di
amonds, on (the) Jewish rich, on
Jewish athletes,” she concluded.
Rubin said two of the three articles
she mentioned have been among the
three most popular with readers dur-
K d Politics is peril
y for Italian opera
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MILAN, Italy — It’s nothing but
our notes these days for La Scala,
he world’s most famous opera house
nd the crown jewel of Italian cul
lers and carrels
•ked out. Lockers;
uent inspections bi
tel.
Bureaucracy and politics have
l( 111,11 lu tarrt 'iftjj|)rced a crippling financial crisis,
nocked by the opulent opening
ights in the theater’s “golden
orseshoe” that are a “must” for
lurope’s social elite.
Prominent figures at La Scala are
electing because of government in-
tability and the slow politicization of
taly s theaters. Private financing,
specially corporate support so com-
lon in the United States, is frowned
pon
“For several years La Scala has
een in an absurd situation for lack of
loney and competent personnel,
Id the celebrated Claudio Abbado
hen he resigned as musical direc-
>r. “Few people are willing to con-
nue working there.”
Abbado, 46, was one of the few —
e stayed on as orchestra director,
bw he has walked out on that job,
les left will be ren
,ry so the carrel i
•d.
jy deposits of$5fo
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>e charged for cam
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his behavior.”
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Fla., couple lastSq
■d the couple, slaslie
with a knife and
Fioravante Nanni, La Scala’s sec-
:tary general and one of Europe’s
, ,, ,ii tost respected theater entrep-
isecutor Marshall Fir 1 . , . i ir > ^ iV
a ,, meurs, resigned in a hull last De-
•ssfuHy he state ■ i mber and took over the 0
to pay the sv.OOO t wE r r,
, .ji , heater ot Rome.
“F left La Scala when it started
ecoming too political,” Nanni said.
iVe want to make theater, not play
alitics. That will mean the death of
h opera as we know it.
La Scala has had golden moments
the 202 years since Austrian
press Maria Teresa ordered the
ilding of the theater — the first
ring of music by Verdi, Wagner,
iccini and Mussorgsky and conduc-
J such as Arturo Toscannini.
But observers say La Scala’s days
the grand old lady of opera and
e|first theater of the world” are
unbered.
“La Scala’s reputation has de-
ped drastically over the past few
ars because of its political and
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financial situation,” Nanni said.
“Italian opera in general does not
have a very high level of credibility
right now. It was harder and harder
for me to attract foreign ‘superstars.’
They prefer not to come to Italy.
Some of those who come do so for
sentimental reasons.”
La Scala’s deep financial problems
stem from the fact that all Italian
theaters are subsidized by the state.
But the money is never enough, and
the annual amounts are usually un
certain until the 11th hour, a wait-
and-hope game which wreaks havoc
with future planning.
“The earliest you can book a well-
known singer is usually three or four
years in advance,” Nanni said. “If
you don’t know what the budget will
be, how can you offer good people
money?”
Italian union regulations have
hampered La Scala’s attempts to
stretch its budget. Musicians, sin
gers and support staff are paid
whether or not they work. From 80
percent to 90 percent of La Scala’s
average $17 million annual subsidy,
Nanni estimates, goes in salaries for
full-time staffers.
Italy’s leftist political parties,
which say theater should not be
“contaminated ’ by corporate
money, have stymied all serious
attempts to attract private financing.
“The purists and some members of
the Communist Party think private
financing would mean the prima
donna running across the stage in
Adidas jogging shoes or Coca Cola
served in paper cups during inter
mission,” said Maurizio Giammusso,
theater critic for the Milan newspap
er Corriere Della Sera.
Italian theatergoing has skyrock
eted nearly 400 percent in the past
10 years. But the increased receipts
have not been enough. The govern
ment must pay about twice each tick
et price in subsidy money.
Nanni says he had to turn down
offers of help from Italian corpora
tions because they did not go over
well politically.
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ing the magazine’s first year of publi
cation.
The third fa vorite, which
appeared in the February 1980
issue, covers responses of the eight
leading presidential candidates to a
questionnaire prepared by Rubin
and his staff.
In an interview, Rubin said he is
trying to respond to all readers. In
addition to the food coverage, each
issue of the magazine contains one
serious, timely article and one light
article, plus features and depart
ments.
The great Jewish athletes article
appeared in the February issue,
along with excerpts from diaries by a
group of young Americans who vi
sited Eastern European concentra
tion camps as part of a program of the
Holocaust, the Nazis’ systematic
destruction of more than six million
European Jews before and during
World War II.
The March-April, or Passover,
issue marks the first anniversary of
the magazine that began as Kosher
Home, then was renamed Kosher
Home’s Jewish Living and now is
called simply Jewish Living.
It includes includes articles about
presidential adviser Stuart E. Eizen-
stat and Mayor Dianne Feinstein of
San Francisco, plus advice on choos
ing a summer camp for children and
holiday recipes that are both tradi
tional and contemporary.
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