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...Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned to read music at eight. Says he: "You do not have to know the alphabet to speak well...
...Government projects, for FORTUNE, and to illustrate books (Let Us Now Praise Famous Men), photographing its muck and loveliness, miseries and grandeur, all with the same puritanical detachment. His pictures have no tricks in them, only an intensity of understatement which makes him one of the top half-dozen photographers alive. Says he: "After 20-odd years of work I still have great difficulty maintaining enough calm to operate well, at moments when some sort of perfection is in sight...
Members of the half-dozen leftist groups which have hitherto dominated University politics, did not seem, however, to share Staples' optimism for the success of the HYRC. When questioned, they rubbed their chins and mused skeptically. "We wonder just how many of these men will be active members and how many will be merely deadwood...
...agates, and mushroom-hunting in the salal and salmonberry woods nearby. In the huge living room of his house, near a life-size woodcarving of Christ, he works nervously, but neatly, as always, on a piano concerto. He and his wife Marguerite find time to play with his half-dozen cats. Says he: "We can learn much from them. I wish they could teach me to relax...
...intricate shadings of character. "Hands Across The Sea" Depends for plot upon simple mistaken identity; but it is into his people, not action, that Coward throws his efforts here. Basically a tour the forced for Gertrude Lawrence, the apparently flawless supporting cast is spread out in a half-dozen beautiful roles. Uneasy colonials, brash ladies, amorphic gentlemen all flow around the sparkling currents of Miss Lawrence's personality and Mr. Coward's lightest lines in a piece which is to the best degree pure entertainment...