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...Venice last week, a pair of orchestra seats for the premiere of Composer Igor Stravinsky's first full-length opera was fetching as high as $500 on the black market. Operagoers and critics came from all over Europe and the U.S. In spite of all this interest, the first-night reaction to The Rake's Progress was one of happy surprise. The harsh and riotous Stravinsky rhythms of other years (e.g., in The Firebird, The Rite of Spring) were missing. The Rake's Progress sang with old-fashioned melody...
...rule of trade at RCA Victor and Columbia that the U.S. record-buying public wants more full-length grand opera. Three years ago, a 36-year-old New Yorker named Dario Soria bet a small bankroll on the same proposition-and is now the No. 1 impresario of recorded opera...
During the '30s, Nicholas Monsarrat was a budding British novelist. During World War II, he rose through the Royal Navy to command, in succession, three escort vessels, a corvette and two frigates, all on convoy duty in the North Atlantic. In The Cruel Sea, his first full-length novel since the war, Monsarrat writes a moving odyssey of the convoy...
Some boys got as far as the U.S. One worked his way across the Atlantic as a paint boy on a ship, traveled from New Orleans to Chicago, returned with a manuscript for a full-length book. Another boy cycled from Ontario to California, making his way by giving radio interviews. He was attacked by a bull, sideswiped by a car; he witnessed eight automobile accidents and saw a man shoot his wife in the streets of Reno...
...This sort of competition should be encouraged rather than suppressed." With that comment, a Manhattan federal judge last week turned thumbs down on Walt Disney's effort to protect his forthcoming full-length Alice in Wonderland by staving off U.S. exhibition of Producer Lou Bunin's French-made version of Alice (TIME, July 16). Still muttering darkly of "deception," Disney announced plans for an appeal and put out pointed ads to hawk his Alice's Aug. i premiere: "There is only ONE Walt Disney! There is only ONE Walt Disney's Alicel...