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...last-minute effort to fight the bill, United Party Opposition Leader Strauss tried to win support among more moderate Nationalists by declaring that if his party should get power again, he would not guarantee to restore the vote to colored citizens. The announcement merely split his own party. Quietly and remorsefully the Senate debated its own death sentence. One by one Senators rose to make their last speeches. Natal's Edward Brown seemed near to tears as he spoke his own political requiem: "This is a rape of the constitution. The country is at the mercy of the Nationalist...
...decides it must be classical music "because there's no vocal." Tom Ewell brings the expertise of long familiarity to his part of the agonized husband, but Director Wilder has let several of Ewell's monologues go on a shade too long. In minor roles, Robert Strauss and Donald MacBride also help to slow down the farce pace, while Oscar Homolka, as the psychiatrist, loses most of his best lines in transition from Broadway and delivers the remainder in too impenetrable an accent. Itch should have emerged on the screen as a fast, furious and funny comedy...
Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Schubert, Bruckner and Richard Strauss...
...Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas...
...imposing agenda: seven each by Wagner and Richard Strauss, four by Mozart and one each by Handel and Pfitzner...