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...Third Sonata for violin and clavier in E flat more faithful to the Seventeenth Century style than the recording cut several years ago by Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hepzibah. Although the harpsichord part may be slightly less important than the violin, the precision and vigor commanded by Wanda Landowska provide a better accompaniment for Menuhin than the carefully uninspired piano performance by his sister...
...Bach: Goldberg Variations (Wanda Landowska; Victor, 12 sides). The Polish harpsichordist hovers gracefully over 18th-Century drawing-room music. Performance: excellent...
Miss Bacall occasionally remarks in a loud monotone: "I hate melodrama." Her protest does not, in any sense, stop the show. All the supporting players do their jobs efficiently. Wanda Hendrix stands out sharply as a downtrodden little...
Best-known member of the new committee: Wanda Wasilewska, best-selling Soviet novelist (The Rainbow) and wife of Alexander Korneichuk, until recently the Soviet Ukraine's Commissar of Foreign Affairs...
...based on her youthful experiences in Poland's rural squalor. Nevertheless, she managed to go through Cracow University, where she took a degree in philosophy. She planned to teach, but unsympathetic Polish educators told her: "We want teachers, not somebody to make propaganda." So Wanda turned to freelance journalism, was elected (in the 1930s) to the Polish parliament as a candidate of the pro-Communist United Front...