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...music was full of wrenched, tortured and distinctly unconventional effects. Baritone Josef Herrmann sang the title role with pathos, but no mawkishness. Christl Goltz, currently one of Germany's most popular sopranos, was forceful as the wanton mistress. For Stage Director Oscar Fritz Schuh and Conductor Karl Boehm, who produced Wozzeck in the early '30s, it was like old times. When it was over, Wozzeck got an ovation...
Last week Senate investigators had a chat with a quietly dressed Washington five-percenter named Glenn P. Boehm, who had such characteristics in abundance. Not only is he a Missourian, he also knows Harry Truman and is a friend of Presidential Cronies Donald S. Dawson and Major General Harry Vaughan. Under questioning, Boehm reluctantly disclosed a few of his successful Washington deals. Among them was arranging a $200,000 RFC loan for a Philadelphia paper concern, picking up a $10,000 fee for promising to help a Mississippian sell a submachine gun to Army Ordnance, and helping a "client...
...Boehm freely admitted that he had not done much to earn some of these fees, but he stoutly denied that his friends in the White House had ever helped him. One exception, he recalled, was a meeting he arranged between a group of pro-Truman Mississippians, headed by state National Committeeman Clarence S. Hood Jr., and Donald S. Dawson. As a result of the meeting, the Mississippians were eventually placed in charge of dispensing federal patronage in the state of Mississippi-until they were kicked out two months ago after an investigation into federal job-selling...
...Boehm's testimony increased senatorial curiosity over what White House Aide Dawson might say for himself if he would only talk. Last week the Fulbright subcommittee, investigating the RFC, issued its second invitation to Dawson, and this time worded it a little more urgently. The subcommittee hoped to shame him into appearing; subpoenaing him would create a legal hubbub about legislative v. executive authority, which the Senators might lose. At week's end, Dawson, acting on the orders of Harry Truman, still had not replied to the subcommittee's request, and, furthermore gave no sign of intending...
...energy, Side Street mostly fulfills its modest melo dramatic intentions. Its climax, an auto mobile chase near the Manhattan water front and in the deserted financial district on a Sunday morning, is sharpened by exciting location shots from high overhead showing the cars darting through narrow skyscraper canyons. Sidney Boehm's straightaway script, if somewhat patly plotted, contains some authentic-sounding police talk. There are also solid minor per formances by Paul Kelly as a captain of detectives, James Craig as a thug and Jean Hagen as a Greenwich Village night club floozy...