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...Bolshoi Ballet is the most extravagantly praised and least frequently viewed wonder of the world. The company's triumphant London visit three years ago (TIME, Oct. 15, 1956) marked its first appearance on a Western stage. Last week, amid box office uproar (see SHOW BUSINESS), Impresario Sol Hurok finally welcomed the Bolshoi to Manhattan for the start of a nine-week cross-continent tour. The long-awaited look was not a disappointment. But, as with many such wonders, the anticipation was somewhat more exciting than the actuality. In the initial performances at least, the visitors demonstrated a technique linked...
...only reason for the cutback in movies at all," says Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's boss, Sol C. Siegel, "is that we will not make pictures for the sake of making pictures any more." TV has killed the routine movie for most people (who can watch all the routine movies they want to on TV), forced Hollywood to concentrate on blockbusters-the big-screen, big-star, big-color extravaganzas that often cost upwards of $3,000,000. The blockbusters have no trouble luring people away from TV, are the favorites of the drive-in theaters, which have grown from...
...Hollywood. He says he regrets having spent so much time in Hollywood; he should have written more plays to increase his repertory rather than running out to the West Coast for six months at a time. In connection with his Hollywood experience, he recalls once being asked by producer Sol Wurtzel to do a screenplay for Dante's Inferno. "That requires a lot of research," Behrman replied. "Oh, no," said Wurtzel, "you can see the silent film." Behrman's most recent screenplay is the new Ben Hur: "there are 126 camels and 126 writers, and they all have about...
Last week, together with five of his colleagues. Monarchist Satrústegui was hauled off to Madrid's Puerta del Sol police headquarters to explain himself. Released after two hours' questioning, Satrústegui emerged exultant. "The government is now weak," he said. "It cannot arrest me without doing great harm to itself." Satrústegui's remarks strongly suggested that the regime of Spain's 66-year-old Caudillo (leader) was in trouble-more trouble than usual. To some degree...
...growing, if temporarily tormented. Its free-enterprising policies have brought $970 million in foreign capital, and between 1948 and 1957, gross national product almost doubled. At first Prado hiked wages and the budget too abruptly, and the U.S. recession dropped commodity prices: copper 44%, cotton 25%. The Peruvian sol dropped from 19 per $1 to 25. But Prado fell back on his banker's training, hiked customs as high as 200% on luxuries, clamped rigid reserve requirements on banks and stabilized the sol...