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SPARTACUS. Director Stanley Kubrick and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo, in adapting the tragedy of the heroic slave to Super-Technirama 70 and the various other disadvantages of a $12 million budget, have managed to achieve that happy contradiction in cinema terms, an intelligent spectacle...
...same Munich school where Strauss was primus (top) of his class. They have a ig-month-old son named Max Josef, and Strauss has already bought the boy an electric train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa...
Frank Glazer Plays Musical Autographs (Concert-Disc). The musical calling cards of the great composers as they were inscribed in various souvenir albums. Included are Mozart's Marche Funebre del Signor Maestro Contrapunto (Funeral March of Master Counterpoint), a mock-heroic exercise for his pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
...hundred massed on a stage tends to be impressive, no matter what is sung. But the Moussorgsky was more than impressive; it was a triumph of high spirit and high decibels. The accompanists, playing what sounded like a two-piano arrangement of the massive Rimsky-Korsakoff orchestration, were heroic but more or less helpless: their tinkling didn't stand a chance against the full-bodied voices of the chorus. The music was sung in English; the translation, from the little I was able to hear of it, was appropriately martial. I am, I suppose, impressed by any loud sonority...
...American and other United Nations representatives in the green truce-talks hut at Panmunjom. But Russia has hitherto provided most of North Korea's arms, including MIGs. and all of Pyongyang Radio's praise has gone to Moscow for "truly great support and aid." The top prize for a heroic North Korean worker who exceeds his production norm is a trip to Moscow, not to Peking...