European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse And Dent All Lff a Lei b bag editor tub stars and wipes Apo 1/s, . Forces. In. Elud Nom and Eddre ii name will by old and Kopf conf Cuntlow on it Quail. Utters May by Condo nit for Publ Eollen provided Luth do Tang Dell net alter the meaning of the original. Backstage of the music Hall Braun shows a visitor his control panel. A photo push Button Miracle maker by William Glover a staff writer when Nome Burns Eugene Brau bustles. The fiery spectacle is the latest Eye popping Triumph of the Little backstage wizard of. Radio City music Hall in Newyork. Braun a Spry 71, is two people. One is the sedate expert who designed and pre sides Over the famous theater s amazing electrical Plant. The other is a contrive Rof Scenic sensations. They re tougher than real electric prob lems to figure out he says of Stag effects. But i get a big kick out of to simulate the holocaust which destroyed Nome in Pioneer Days Braun even invented a new kind of machine for flame effects then had 30 of them built. We would have needed twice As much equipment to get what we wanted with previous flame devices he explains. The fire highlights a pageant Salute to the nation s newest state. Smoke fills the vast stage explosions Send pieces of scenery flying buildings crumble. Actually there Are eight different effects involved Braun says. These involve steam lines smoke pots explosives blowers and fast stepping perfectionist always Braun insists upon absolute split second control of paraphernalia As the secret of audience Impact. He rues inability to make smoke machines behave with the push Button obedience of electricity. Sometimes we have to use a Little t scheming to get what we want at the proper moment he says. Braun who was born in Hungary came to the . In 1906. He has been in theater electrical work Ever since starting As an assistant at new York s Winter Garden working up As the Man who lighted Max Reinhardt s epic version of the has been handling music Hall duties since the showplace opened in 1932. Prior to Blaze Braun Nomi nates As among his More splendid efforts fireworks display involving 13,000 lamps and Only he knows How Many connections and switches and a recently used giant rocket which launched into space with Garish Blastoff authority. That was a cute Little trick he says. Braun does t know yet what his next electrical magic will be. I Don t think up these ideas he says. That a up to the show producer. I have enough of a Job figuring out How to make them East West vulnerable. South deals. North4k a 6 2 v j 8 7 6 4 2 9 a q3 West East j 10 q 9 7 4 � a v 3 4 k j 10 8 7 5 464324.k964 4.j875 South 4t k 8 5 3 v k q 10 9 5 10 2the bidding South West North East if 2 3 f pass4 pass 4 4 pass 5 y pass 6 y pass pass pass opening Lead Jack of 4. A Gross overbid by South in today s hand paid off a handsome Reward when he correctly diag noted the Only Adverse Dis Tribu. That would give him a Kwa Goren on Bridge v 4 Chance to land the slam contract. The bidding started out unorthodox fashion. West had a sound Overall and North a to drawer jump raise but South s Cue bid of four diamonds seems to this observer to be exceedingly aggressive. In View of the and verse Overall South should de value his Queen of diamonds so that his hand becomes a mini mum opening. He should there fore proceed merely to four hearts. South attempted to slow Down the proceedings subsequently by signing off at five hearts but twas too late to Stop. North was Well within himself in bidding the Small slam. The hopelessness of the Situa Tion was apparent from the out set for even if the club King were favourably located the inevitable losers appeared to be a Spade and a heart. But South gave the management of the Dummy the same ambitious treat ment he Manj tested in the a
