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MARY (436 pp.)-Sholem Asch-Putnam...
...years Sholem Asch has enjoyed international popularity for the novels and short stories he has written out of his vast knowledge of Jewish life and history. Mary concludes his most ambitious work, a trilogy on the beginnings of Christianity that already includes bestselling lives of Christ (The Nazarene) and St. Paul (The Apostle). In both earlier books Asch had a dramatic lifeline to follow, and he followed it skillfully, feeding in a fascinating mass of scholarly wrinkles, though often he enlarged on Gospel truth. On Mary's life the Scripture is scant, and Asch had to enlarge still further...
...lights of the script. Four years ago, tired of stop-&-start performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian ballroom makes smooth and pleasant listening. Dmitri Kabalevsky, another Soviet up-&-comer, gets a single side...
Folk Music of the Central East (Disc, 6 sides). The first album of Moe Asch's ethnological folk music series (TIME, Feb. 25) was recorded in remote southern republics of the U.S.S.R. The result is not Tchaikovsky's Russia but polyglot: in different sections the music sometimes sounds like an Indian powwow, sometimes like a swirl of bagpipes, sometimes like Chinese temple music. Performance: uneven...
...combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman's Too Early to Tell...