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...outer and artistically a might-have-been. Playwright Tabori (Flight Into Egypt) has yoked a fascinating idea for a play to a good deal more familiar one, and the two neither run very well in harness nor altogether keep to the road. Tabori's scene is Budapest in 1930; his atmosphere that of an incipient police state; his chief characters a small boy (Brandon de Wilde) and his father (Lee J. Cobb). The boy inhabits a mental world swarming with such heroes as Sherlock Holmes, Hoot Gibson and the Scarlet pimpernel. But his chief hero is his father...
...BUDAPEST. Hungarian police arrested Lajos Stoeckler, leader of the Hungarian Jewish community. The official Communist newspaper trumpeted that the dangers "of hostile, undermining activities" of Joint are much more imminent in Hungary (many of whose top Communist rulers are Jews) than in the Soviet Union...
Last week in Munich, another Hungarian engineer-one who got away-was supplying the Voice with more facts about Hungarian railroading under the Communists. He was a young man who had left a farm only four years ago to go to Budapest and try his luck on the railroads. "There were many new locomotives on the roads then," he said, "but they were all heading east to Russia. All we had were old 'Truman 525.' " So called in derision, these were obsolescent U.S. locomotives sent over as stopgap aid before the Iron Curtain fell. Most were falling apart...
...long last, his inquisitors gave up and loaded him on board a train for Budapest, under guard and shackled with chains. It was a road he had often driven: he knew its grades, its crossings, the country on each side of its right of way. He asked his guard for permission to use the toilet. The guard removed his arm and leg irons, saw him into the small compartment at the car's end, and stood sentinel outside...
...sheen of perfection marks the Budapest performances: virtually every note is impeccable, and the teamwork is so good that the four instruments sound almost like one. More tonal contrast marks the Pascal playing: individual instruments sometimes sing out with a fervor that comes close to the composer's own spirit...