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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Flagello, Norman Kelley, Kim Borg, Blanche Thebom. The immense chorus sang the English text (by John Gutman) with both volume and admirable clarity. But the clear triumph of the evening belonged to Baritone George London in the title role. His Boris, which he sang with great success during his recent tour of Russia, was passionate, anguished, suffused with an almost unbearable sense of racking inner tensions. As London played it last week, it clearly belonged among the finest characterizations in opera...
...Happened in Broad Daylight (Praesens-Film; Continental) is a cinema curiosity: a film that was later made into a novel. The script is the work of Switzerland's Friedrich Duerrenmatt, whose sinister morality plays (The Visit, Fools Are Passing Through) have been fascinating U.S. theater audiences in recent years. After writing the picture, Author Duerrenmatt rewrote it as a novel, published in the U.S. as The Pledge (TIME, March 30, 1959). Inevitably, people will say they liked the book better. It was a thoughtful study of the police mind and the one thing that destroys it: human feeling...
...film it is merely slick. So is the camera work; but some of the performances are better than that. Gert Frobe, who scored so impressively as a comic capitalist in Rosemary, creates with amazingly few gestures one of the most frightening psychopaths the screen has exhibited in recent years. And Actor Ruhmann, as the inspector, skillfully suggests that somewhere behind his wooden expression there are termites at work...
...small investors across the nation were suddenly aware of a dampening word: recession. Said Jacques Coe, who keeps tab on what the small investor is doing by totaling the odd-lot purchases and sales: "Never in all my years have I seen this type of bearishness. The most recent figures show short selling running eight to ten times normal." Since Coe believes that the public becomes most bearish when the market is about at its bottom, he expects a sustained upturn before the end of the year...
Wary of Change. One of the chief subjects of debate among Wall Streeters was the effect on the market of predictions that Democratic Candidate John F. Kennedy will be elected. Some analysts believe that the market's recent slide was caused by the spreading belief that Kennedy will win and will bring on more inflation by stepping up Government spending. This reasoning seemed to contradict the market's recent history, where fear of inflation has helped send stocks up since they are considered one of the best hedges against it. But brokers had an answer to this paradox...