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Chopin: Twelve Etudes, Opus 25 (Edward Kilenyi, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides). The famed Winter Wind, and other studies in their first complete edition, played fleetly, skin-deeply by a handsome young man who has yet to fulfill early promises...
...social snobbery which J. P. Marquand gave to the world in the now famous "Pulham." Harvard's intellectual snobbery, a form of the disease as distasteful as its social counterpart and even more prevalent around Cambridge, deserves a shellacking, but the heavy hand of Hollywood molded Maxie's opus into the general style of belly-laugh comedies, abandoning all thought of satire...
Sadakichi Hartmann, onetime "King of Greenwich Village," announced from his desert-edge shack in California that he was writing "what likely will be my last opus." Son of a German father and Japanese mother, hard-playing Eccentric Hartmann was once a crony of Walt Whitman, spent most of his life writing art brochures and unplayable plays. Now 72, he described his final opus: "Theme: 1,000 happy moments in a lifetime-where can they be found-four New World Orders analyzed-which one is your choice...
Ringside Maisie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a slight opus about a prize fighter (Robert Sterling) who wants to get into a business that smells good (groceries) and a manager (George Murphy) who makes him fight until he goes blind. It would not be much of a picture without Maisie (Ann Sothern), the Brooklyn Bonfire with a heart as big as a whale. Maisie makes...
Less pretentious but in its own way just as enjoyable is the Beethoven String Guartet Opus 18 No. 6, one of the most spontaneous and delightfully humorous of the early quartets, to which the recording by the Coolidge Quartet (Album M-745) does full justice. . . . Also of a genial and unpretentious nature is the Corelli Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B-Flat, in dance suite form, recorded on a single Victor record (No. 12587) by Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta. The finding of this concerto by the scholarly efforts of Mr. Fiedler is typical of the great practical service...