Volume 22, Number 16 · October 16, 1975
Salzburg, Mozart and 'Così'
By Robert Craft
This summer's visitor to Salzburg discovered every approach to the city, from Autobahn, Bahnhof, and Flughafen, displaying a poster of a handsome headwaiter—to judge by the white tie and tails, although he carried no menu, and his transcendent expression exceeded the mystique associated with even the poshest restaurants. In some places the affiches stood no more than fifty feet apart, at one intersection almost obscuring the signs for Berchtesgaden, and the tourist must have wondered what this glamorous maître d' could be advertising, with his manner so different from that of the contented users pictured on other billboards.
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