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Choking Classics. Diskman Lieberson, 43, has found time to write a novel (3 for Bedroom C), start a play and marry famed Dancer Vera Zorina. Lately, he spends less and less time in the glass-fronted control booth supervising recording sessions, more and more behind his desk thinking up new ideas. Although he recorded Berg's operas Wozzeck and Lulu, and all the quartets of Schoenberg and Bartok, Lieberson discovered gradually that "it is becoming almost bourgeois to do contemporary music-everybody's doing it now." It is also too expensive for a major company to take...
...WILLIAM R. BOOTH Church of the Transfiguration New York City...
...Manhattan and in London were ranged in a circle around a cluster of cameras, microphone booms and cables. Overhead glared a battery of lights. In and around the sets moved actors, cameramen, soundmen, stagehands, assistant directors and a stage manager in a reasonable facsimile of confusion. From the control booth, Director Seymour Kulik barked commands to his headset-wearing assistants as the actors, electricians and cameramen annoyingly muffed their cues. The play was To Each His Own, adapted from the 1946 movie that won an Oscar for Olivia de Havilland. Now, cut from two hours to 46 minutes, it starred...
...time as Hogarth's pictures were. But this new violence, with its sadistic overtones, is quite different. It is not simply coarse, brutal from a want of refinement and nerves, but genuinely corrupt, fundamentally unhealthy and evil. It does not suggest the fairground, the cattle market, the boxing booth, the horseplay of exuberant young males. It smells of concentration camps and the basements of secret police. There are screaming nerves in it. Its father is not an animal maleness, but some sort of diseased manhood, perverted and rotten...
...wonder is how beautifully she plays it. For the first half-hour Actress Booth breathes such a warm belief into the dull things she is doing that the audience willingly suspends the disbelief the silly plot inspires...