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...cast of the film reads something like an index of the modern French stage. It includes, among others, Gerard Philippe, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook, and Jean-Louis Barrault. All of these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls...
...oboe solo in the andante section positively swooned-as well as hints of emotional deeps. Beethoven's Egmont Overture, about as nearly threadbare as a Beethoven work can be, had its nap teaseled attractively. But the evening's piece de resistance was Symphony No. 7 by Anton Bruckner...
Played.'" The latter title should be "How Ruby Played." It described a piano performance by Anton Rubinstein...
Died. Dr. Anton Julius ("Ajax") Carlson, 81, peppery, renowned Swedish-born physiologist, leading authority on nutrition, old age and alcoholism (TIME, Feb. 10, 1941), longtime member (and head, 1916-40) of the University of Chicago's physiology department; in Chicago...
...Alberto Guerrero; at 14 he performed with the Toronto Symphony. Since then, his life has been rigidly circumscribed by the demands of his musical career. In his rare free hours (he practices and reads scores eight hours a day before a performance), Gould studies other composers (major influences: Schoenberg, Anton Bruckner, Richard Strauss), reads omnivorously (favorites: Kafka and Thomas Mann), dodges social activities. "If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work," he says, "cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing...