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Kate Smith Evening Hour (Wed. 8 p.m., NBCTV) alternates sentimental Kate Smith, as amply amiable as ever, with topflight variety acts. On the opening show Paul Lukas appeared in a dramatic skit; William Bendix in a comedy role; Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers paid their satiric respects to show...
Increasingly, chamber music pays. For a concert performance, the Budapest gets at least $800. Annual earnings: about $25,000 a man (to which record royalties contribute about $5,000 apiece). Audiences still thrive on the standard 17th and 18th Century repertory, but the quartet has found some listeners eager for...
Foss: The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Burton Trimble, tenor; Ruth Biller, soprano; Paul Ukena, bass-baritone, and others; Frederic Kurzweil, pianist; Lyrichord, 2 sides LP). Brilliant young (28) Lukas Foss's adaptation of Mark Twain makes Foss look like one of the brightest hopes of American opera. Well...
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky...
Kipling's red-blooded hokum comes to the screen almost intact, lacks nothing for juvenile excitement except possibly a lancer charge or two. As Mahbub Ali, the Red Beard, Errol Flynn dallies with some dusky harem girls, but the script steers mercifully clear of a love story, and even...