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Something About a Soldier. Branwell's sad saga ought to have made a more compelling story than Novelist Daphne Du Maurier has made of it. She is too busy justifying Branwell to do psychological justice to his twisted life. As a boy, Branwell was startlingly precocious. At eight, he could commit a page to memory on a single reading, repeat a lesson verbatim, store away names, dates, and places with faultless recall. Ambidextrous, he could write two letters at once. His proud, high-strung curate father had been left a widower with six small children, five of them girls...
...INFERNAL WORLD OF BRANWELL BRONTË(336 pp.)-Daphne Du Maurier -Doubleday...
...CONCERT. The fifth in the Boston Symphony Orchestra's yearly forays into Cambridge. The program is scheduled to include Darius Milhaud's La Creation du monde, Schumann's Violin Concerto in d (soloist: Henryk Szeryng), and Cesar Franck's Symphony in d. Sanders Theatre; 8:30 P.M. Tickets at Symphony Hall, or at the door...
...pockets of Secunda and Jacobs. Secunda's mother was so certain that God was thus punishing her for her sins that she went to a synagogue and remained there for an entire day, fasting and praying for forgiveness. But in the 24 years that followed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön went on relentlessly inflating the fortunes of others. People have bought 250,000 copies of Bei Mir sheet music and 2,500,000 Bei Mir records-for a total gross...
...Secunda, 66, now writes liturgical music, and in summer is music director of a resort hotel in the Catskills. Jacobs runs a Yiddish vaudeville house in Miami Beach. Secunda has signed a new contract with Harms, Inc., music publishers, and the partners are assured that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön is still worth at least $5,000 yearly. They shrug off the $350,000 they might have had. Says Secunda: "Mother was convinced that the big day would come...