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"Stop, stop, stop," chanted one touristy audience in the midst of a night in Ulm. But Ulm's town fathers defiantly contribute 1,400,000 marks ($350,000) a year to keep the theater happily independent of public whim.
* Says British Actor-Playwright Peter Ustinov: "Nothing is easier or better for a person's morale than having one of his plays produced in Germany. You are asked to write notes for the playbill, like those for a symphony, and in them you can say, 'The second act slows because here I mix Theme A with Theme C, resulting in a pace that approaches utter boredom.' Then the audience studies the program and at intermission you can hear them saying, 'Ustinov is a genius. See! Here where he says it would be boring, it is boring.' "