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Tito, whose first wife is dead, is currently married to a thirtyish, pretty graduate of Belgrade's School of Business Administration, but she is kept in the background (he is rumored to have a mistress). He has chosen ex-King Peter's palace at Bled for his summer residence, ex-Regent Paul's Bell Dvor (White Palace) on Belgrade's Dedinje Hill for his town house (it has Belgrade's only good air-raid shelter...
...Movie background music has come a long way since the days when a loud chord went with a slammed door, a descending scale with a man falling downstairs. Whether it has gone far enough to be music in its own right, few music critics are willing to assert. But last week two scores by Hollywood's No. 1 sound-track composer, Miklos Rozsa, were fast-moving items. His Spellbound Concerto, adapted from his Oscar-winning music for Spellbound, had sold 100,000 sets at $4 each; his Lost Weekend music was one of Victor's top ten "semi...
...worst, background music is a cheap way of getting or underscoring an emotional effect, full of Wagner's tritest tricks. At its best, says Rozsa, it can help to "complete a psychological effect." Spellbound and The Lost Weekend, full of mental quirks and jangled nerves, were right up his Tin Pan alley. To express one hero's amnesia and the other's lust for alcohol, Rozsa used an unearthly contralto wail, produced electronically by a radio-like instrument called the theremin (TIME, April 11, 1932). The theremin, almost never used in a Hollywood film score before...
...translation help, for 85% of them speak one or more foreign languages. This versatility gets more useful every day now that foreign publications are reaching America again in almost prewar quantity-and, of course, articles written for foreign audiences in their native tongues are a rich source of background information and local color. (Most difficult to translate, observes one Foreign News researcher, are the captions under the cartoons. The reason is a wry one coming from TIME-she says the lines are "too condensed, too colloquial...
Graebner's background is not entirely typical of G.I. students (most of whom have no profession yet) but his budgeting problems are. A University of Chicago School of Business survey reported last week: "Veterans attending college in the Chicago area cannot live on their Government allowance, but must dip into savings or take outside jobs to meet expenses." The figures: the average single man spends $115 a month, the average married man $165. The Government allowances...