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So far as it came-off at all. Sherlock Holmes did so as a museum piece that was being gently spoofed. But the spoofing, unfortunately, came off only at moments: for the most part the play, however rife with crime, merely swirled with inaction. It was lavishly produced. As Irene...
Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia). A majestic reading whose importance is somewhat dimmed by the fact that it is the 15th LP of this famed work. Columbia's reason: Walter's 77th anniversary year. Other Walter anniversary...
Russian Arias and Songs (Boris Christoff, basso; H.M.V.). One of the world's noblest voices and a program eminently suited for bassos. Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov account for most of the ten selections.
Melba (Horizon; United Artists) treats of the life & loves of the late great Coloratura Soprano Nellie Melba (real name: Nellie Mitchell), after whom Melba toast and the peach Melba were named. It is a rich, creamy, Technicolored movie biography that consists of a series of arias, as Mme. Melba moves...
The objection was not so much that he had printed a picture of a girl with no clothes on, but that the picture included the convent-educated daughter of Miguel Aleman, who still has a lot of influential friends in Mexico. For years, Mexican publications had hardly printed anything but...