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Antheil's new symphony boomed with martial rhythms and surged with soulful tunes. It sounded successively like Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, a circus parade and a Czechoslovakian weenie-roast. It was vulgar, raucous, unabashedly sentimental, as enjoyable as a baseball game or a day at Coney Island. Critics were unable to down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism...
...Mozart: Concerto No. 12 (K.414) for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
...Celebrated in the U.S. for The Miracle (1924), Jewish Max Reinhardt was reduced to Paris poverty in the early days of Nazidom, made a Hollywood comeback in 1935 with his first & only movie, the $1,300,000 A Midsummer Night's Dream. As he died his Rosalinda (Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus) was entering its second smashing revival year on Broadway...
...Strauss's idea is to alter the flutter ratio by stiffening the fluttering parts with small areas of scar tissue. These are produced by tiny injections of an irritating drug, sylnasol, which produces small fibrous areas wherever injected. He tried sylnasol on seven married patients. Treatment was repeated every week for five or six weeks. The only discomforts reported were a feeling of thickness at the back of the throat or a five-minute earache...
...patient was completely cured; three snored so gently that their spouses were greatly relieved; three cases were failures (but two of these are continuing treatment). Says Dr. Strauss: "My own feeling is that the failures were due to errors in diagnosis. ... To draw conclusions from the evidence presented would be decidedly premature, and the evidence itself is offered with conservative enthusiasm...