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Massenet: Scènes Pittoresques (Lamoureux Orchestra conducted by Jean Fournet; Epic). An ingratiating suite by one of the French nationalist revolution aries of the 1870s (others: Lalo, Saint-Saëns) that swings its waltz and polonaise movements as only Massenet could. Played as if it were made of sturdier stuff...
Doctor Sixgun (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). New western series about a gunslinging doctor in the 1870s...
...Arkansas' state senate in the 1870s, according to legend, Democrat James K. Jones thundered a reply to a proposal to change the pronunciation of his state to make it rhyme with Kansas. "Change the name of Arkansas?" boomed he. "Never!" No serious attempt has been made since then to tinker with the name of Arkansas; but one man has tried-with notable success-to change its face. He is a bustling Baptist named C. (for Coulter) Hamilton Moses, chairman of Arkansas Power & Light Co., who has been called the "Billy Sunday of Business." In the past ten years, Industrial...
...Denver & Rio Grande (Nat Holt; Paramount) pits two rival railroads of the 1870s against each other. The Denver & Rio Grande is represented by tough, honest Edmond O'Brien, and the Canyon City & San Juan is represented by tough, dishonest Sterling Hayden. After payroll holdups, gun battles, a landslide, dynamiting and a head-on train collision, right triumphs, and the Rio Grande comes through on schedule. The Denver & Rio Grande chugs through impressive Technicolor Rocky Mountain scenery, mostly at a slow-freight pace. Among the characters mouthing wooden dialogue in this little iron-horse opera: Dean Jagger and J. Carrol...
...formula was a tried if not a true one. Just as a generation of Republicans through the 1870s, '80s and '90s "waved the bloody shirt" and ran for office against Jefferson Davis, so a generation of Democrats through the 1930s and '40s have waved the Great Depression and run for office against Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover. The Democrats' story was that they killed the dragon in 1932 (although it was so long adying that some economic pathologists say it really expired of arteriosclerosis and Pearl Harbor). The Democrats had been paid four times...