Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landed a prize catch this year: Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...Bergen, Norway, will be gay with folk dancing and flags for its third annual festival (May 26-June 7). Famed for its musical sons Edvard Grieg and Violinist Ole Bull, the city will feature Scandinavian music played by Bergen and Copenhagen orchestras. Star soloist: Russian Violinist David Oistrakh...
Champagne Complex (by Leslie Stevens) concerns a young girl (Polly Bergen) who, after becoming engaged to a prim young tycoon (John Dall), constantly gets high on champagne and then begins peeling off her clothes. Her worried beau calls in his psychoanalyst bachelor uncle (Donald Cook). Treatments reveal that the girl wants the analyst himself as Cupid to her psyche. Since, in romantic comedies of the '50s, young girls may marry men in their 40s, all is well. Champagne Complex is that very tough undertaking-a play with but three characters and one situation. Despite amusing lines, funny moments...
Some of the professors invading TV have gone nearly the entire way to pure entertainment. Rutgers' handsomely mustached Dr. Mason Gross plays straight man for Comic Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money, and Northwestern's Bergen Evans stars as moderator on Du Mont's Down You Go. When the show moved this season from Chicago to Manhattan, Evans was fortunately on leave from Northwestern to work on a new book on slang. He will therefore not have to make his choice between teaching and TV until this fall, when his leave expires...
Conversation (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). "The Nonconforming American," discussed by Adlai Stevenson, Alistair Cooke, Bergen Evans, Clifton Fadiman...