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This famous Don Giovanni was first broadcast in September 1961 to mark the opening of the Deutsche Opera in west Berlin, though it was, in fact, recorded at an open dress rehearsal the day before its official first night. It's full of political resonances. The Berlin Wall had been constructed only weeks before, and you can sense a jitteriness in the air.

Strong-arm robbery -- Reported Monday by Carl Ebert, employee at Hondo's Bar, 721 Linden St.; Ebert told police he was working behind bar when patron jumped counter and took undetermined amount of money from cash register and pushed Ebert out of way.

CARL J. EBERT, 81, 1704 Cypress Gardens, Winter Haven, died Wednesday, Dec. 22. Mr. Ebert owned a feed mill.

Glyndebourne launches its own archive series with Carl Ebert's production of Figaro from the 1962 festival. What nostalgia and what a cast! Heinz Blankenburg as Figaro, Gabriel Bacquier as the Count, Leyla Gencer as the Countess, Mirella Freni as Susanna, Edith Mathis as Cherubino, Johanna Peters as Marcellina and Hugues Cuenod as Basilio. The conductor is Silvio Varviso.

WHAT would our cultural life have been like over the past half- century if there had been no \"Hitler migrs\" in the 1930s? Maybe the pastoral idyll would continue to hold British composers and architects in its thrall, while the cult of the amateur persisted among our publishers and broadcasters. In every sphere, from musical performance to art history, the presence of the refugees from Nazism helped instil a new level of disciplined professionalism. Above all, the Hitler migrs helped to make our culture cosmopolitan, linking it more closely with the Continental mainstream. Yet the friction generated sparked great art. Within a few months, [Carl Ebert] and the conductor Fritz Busch (who had left Germany at around the same time as Ebert) had inaugurated the first Glyndebourne season with Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Christie's company director was another refugee from Nazism, Rudolf Bing, who later created the Edinburgh Festival and went on to run New York's Metropolitan Opera. Daniel Snowman's The Hitler Emigrs: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism is published by Chatto & Windus on 2 May. He presents Culture Carriers, an evening about the cultural impact of the migrs, on Radio Three on 6 May from 7.30pm to midnight. The exhibition Continental Britons: Jewish Refugees from Nazi Europe is at the Jewish Museum, Camden Town, from 8 May.

Medical Assistance and its cousin, the MinnesotaCare program for the working poor, are not popular among the state's dentists. The biggest complaint: low payments. In some cases, dentists receive payments that are just one-half of the fees they charge. The MDA says the incentive program wouldn't attract more dentists. Instead, the dentists say, the state needs to make it easier for dentists to practice by removing the rules and regulations imposed by the managed-care plans that serve many of those on Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare. In addition to an increase in payments to all dentists, the provider organization wants to see a repeal of the MinnesotaCare provider tax and a repeal of the rule that requires dentists to see public-program recipients in order to do business with the state's employee health insurance program.

ANSWER: The Weiman Co. was founded in Chicago in the 1920s. It moved to Rockford, Ill., in the 1930s. At the same time, it opened a new manufacturing plant in North Carolina. Your table's semicircular design and leaves are reminiscent of a 1750-1850 English \" wine table,\" often called a \"hunt table.\" The original wine tables had a device that stretched between the ends so that a wine bottle could be reached from any point. Your table, a reproduction of the old style, probably dates from the 1950s.

3 PHOTOS by JOHN F. SIMITZ, The Morning Call PHOTO by WALTER KRAUS, The Morning Call ; [Harold Fritz] shows some of the tools of his trade. Below is the home of [Carl Ebert] of West Penn Township. Fritz built the home and says it is 'one of the nicest stone jobs' he ever did. Harold Fritz visits Carl and [Eleanor Ebert] of West Penn Township by the couple's home fireplace Fritz built. Fritz specialized in fireplaces. These tools have seen years of work in Fritz's hands.

My own first memory of Figaro is of a rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943. I was eight and restless with boredom, so I was taken to the top of the Empire State Building. Time soon cured the boredom problem. Glyndebourne, during the course of 72 completed seasons, has now given 1,547 performances of Mozart's operas, not counting those we have given on tour in the UK and abroad. This represents over 35% of our total performance output - a remarkable testament to the festival's love affair with Mozart, given the overall breadth and size of Glyndebourne's repertoire. Figaro tots up 353 performances during these 72 seasons, against 311 of the [Don Giovanni], 366 of Cosi and 214 of the Flute. Mozart is and always has been an inescapable part of Glyndebourne. My father even named his pug dog after Mozart's dog - Bimperl. I'm now off to a rehearsal of the new Grandage-Ticciati production with a cast that is relatively new to Glyndebourne. I am crossing my fingers: they have a rich history to live up to.