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Copland: Rodeo, and Waltz from Billy the Kid (Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Five dances from the popular ballets; much of it is derivative, but also bright and fetching. Performance: good. Recording: good...
Author Van Gelder calls Important People "a kind of Currier & Ives of the current scene" and his publishers promise "a savage and deeply probing novel of the rich and frightening influential society of our time." He tells the story of Hero Dixon West, a rich kid but nice, who comes back from combat in the Pacific anxious to use his wealth constructively but not sure how to go about it. Grandfather West, crusty and conservative owner of a powerful chain of magazines, looks at first to Dixon like a threat to the good life, and finally seems like...
General Clay (his wife reported) "was happy as a kid" when he got reports from Washington last week that more C-54s were on their way to Berlin from Alaska and the Caribbean...
...Frank Morgan and Agnes Moorehead are just right as the old folks. But the key role is all wrong for Mickey Rooney. Now 27, twice divorced and the father of two, Rooney is still a brilliant if limited performer. But he is no longer Andy Hardy. Playing a bookish kid who recoils from sex in the raw, he gives the impression that he not only knows the meaning of the dirty words on the washroom wall but probably put a few of them there himself...
...Berlin, whose Irish immigrant grandfather made his pile in the Comstock Lode, and whose father was Postal Telegraph Tycoon Clarence Mackay, plainly knows her lace-curtain set. But she handles her characters with kid gloves, eagerly plays up the best side of the worst of them. Most readers will get the feeling that she knows more about their problems than she has chosen to write...