European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse London scene Fielding pays tribute to Ziegfeld United press International Hollim s realest showman of today is paying lavish Tribu i to America s greatest showman of yesterday. Incl Len up turning musical in Al Fol promises to Merit 1 i ii Lomg s Favorule word spectacular. I be always Beli Viil that if the Public is going to him a i ils television Sels for an evening Al the theater. Him you should give them As much on the slan1.1. You can Fielding says. This belief has made Fielding at 71, the Moi win d King of musicals in Britain. Zig Feton his 71st i notion show the capstone of to years of and his most ambitious yet. It s one of my i Fielding says. In , that s saying a lot. Fielding is famous for Brut knit in the biggest of big names from Paul Rah Coo and Jeanette Macdonald to Ludy Garland Anil i rank Sinatra and for re creating Broadway Iii Inis on a lavish hang the expense scale. This Lime he s importing Tony winning Broadway Slat i i ii car iou named besi actor in 1979 for Stven fun y Torr Al to portray the legendary Florenz Zigu old. Whose of is dazzled Roadway Between 1 stir and 1931 and became an american Zinsli Lution la Nii Nickit opening april 26, tells quite a lot in Neil 7ii-Gfeld and his i i coding says. I he show also iries to reproduce the opulence of Ziegfeld s shows so it will have showgirls rising aloft on id foot columns 2? scenes and some 400 gowns which Cost v1.85 million it will be the most spectacular escapist show i be Ever produced Fielding says his Collaborator on Zie Mil is american choreographer and director Joe Layton another Lony Winner. His cast includes australian dancer Amanda Rickard and French Singer Fabienne Guyon. All told it s a 250-person team. Bui Only Fielding could have won the permission of Irving Berlin 99, to use what was practically Ziegfeld i theme song a pretty pm ii like j Melody. He will Only allow us to use this one once. Ii can t be part of the overture we can t do a reprise Fielding says. But we Vegol Fielding admits Hal he s no highbrow and says his musicals arc pitched Down the in offensive Middle Al the family this can mean unabashed Corn. I Egierd for instance will end with Cariou s showman ascending to heaven on a Hollywood style staircase. But the Formola also can be a Box office Winner. Ziegfeld has set a London palladium record for Advance Tickel sales. In the end says the King of British musicals it s just another show. Whether it lives or Dies is in the Lap of the gods. I would t attempt to compare myself to Ziegfeld bul we both liked the same things great Beauty on the stage Glamor spectacle and new a a director eyes changes United press International Aii vim visiting i on dam s Vic and Albert nil mum this Spring might i us Nelly i Kelli one by a . Slim woman Wilh d.mi1jinki lrrinb1 and i lightly Kithes. Slie run. The place and she to know what visitors think of it. Of an. 1, i Beth Sieve Coll 49, took charge of "1he As it s known and she does nol mince worry Alum whal she s found. Ii is chaos she says. It is so Milf cull to find your i Irr first priority is spending $200,000 just on signs but signs Are a Mere hint of the new a a to come int ii log a massive restoration of huge Iron framed Halk Quern Victoria would Havu known. " Well be reopening a whole victorian world says Sieve Coll who inherited a multimillion master plan for outgoing director sir Roy Strong. She had Tome to the museum As ils librarian Only 2vi year before being chosen for the lop Job. I lans Call for massive amounts of work at the in momus 12vj-Acreiom Lex of buildings. In will Lake decades. In will take millions the museum does t have the first phase alone aimed for completion by 2000, will Cost Al least in 75 million. It will add 25 percent to the display space of a museum which already has a staggering seven Miles of galleries this is the largest museum of decorative arts in the world Mesleve cd ii says proudly. The new space is nol really needed to unearth triv Nure now buried in basements. Ii is a myth in believe that the storerooms of the via Are bulging Wilh precious says Sieve col. The restoration s More important purpose is to make sense of whal is realty a collection of collections to clean the Grubby interiors to make use of astonishing Vittorian Era rooms now hidden unused or packed with an attic Jumble of storerooms. Now we have a Complete and coherent plan for the building for the first time Mesleve Coll Days. Photographers in the spotlight by Gregory Insen United press International from a wish of Ottawa to it Ilion of the Crmim this ii Shapr a up a the year of the Patio Zograph m London s pallones. Ii".,in Uriart Endert Fel Val of Phulo Graphy. An aft drier Al n bum of Phi of show i crowded a sunday newspaper reviewed live on one Page. The arts Center a one hods him. The o Vrh is provides a rare Chance i Sample photography s endless variety lion the g Amor of the in Loyal family As by famed photographer Norman. I Arkinson to antique buses and i Jim Al to London transport museum. There in Beav England photographed by Chris i in at the Victoria and Albert museum and almost every pop and Rcv music Star of the 50s and 60s by Harry Hammond at the theater museum. The photographers Are As varied As the subjects. Two Are among the medium s pioneers 130 years ago. One is a controversial american of Loday. Beit known Are i he portraits by Yousuf Karsh 160 famous faces cloak the Walls of the main barbican gallery. Everybody knows Karsh s portraits like his 1941 shot of a pugnacious Winston Churchill perhaps the world s most reproduced photograph. There s also the first portraits Only show by american Robert Mapplethorpe who charges to 0,000 or 3 Silling and whose work invariably Sparks healed debate. The portrait gallery when-100 Mapplethorpe portraits have just gone on show Calls him undoubtedly one of the most Brilliant photographers of his the same could have been said a Century ago about Henry peach Robinson and Roger Fenlon. Robinson shown just upstairs from Karsh at the barbican is a curiosity. Photography first Wile afterwards i told his Bride in ism. He made he name with composite photographs assembled bits Cut Oul from five to 10 negatives and they were enormously admired in the victorian Era. Now they look merely Peculiar. Robinson tried to make photography imitate painting a a Lime when painting was Al its sop Piest and most sentimental. Not so Long ago said a reviewer his studies would have been laughed off the it s still hard to repress a smiu1 Al fading a Ivy a composite beloved by Queen Victoria s husband Prince Albert. Ii shows a consumptive girl Al her last gasp her father manfully hiding his grief her Mother and sister hovering like Angels of death. Fenton was a Genius. Even after 130-Odd years his photographs carry an enormous punch. One curious shot dominates his Hayward gallery show a huge blowup of nondescript Bare Hills their desolate gravel thickly littered with round Metal objects Cannon balls. Read the caption and emotion fluids in this is the Valley of death of the suicidal charge of the Light thai photograph is one of the start., unsparing crimean War pictures which made Fenlon s reputation a decade injure Mathew Brady photographed the Anu can civil War Fenton s crime an pictures first convinced Britain that War was no longer chivalry no longer a game. These pictures Are Alt the More because fun Lin was a Pioneer in 1852, when photography was so cumbersome his equipment and wot Plale negatives filled a horse drawn Van. Ader Only 10 years Fenlon abruptly abandoned the Field. Vet he was the British museum s first official photographer pioneered War photography w
