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Stravinsky's orchestration was the best thing in the production: it probably established a record for different ways of sounding a common chord, and it was as full of his halting, polka-like rhythms as Traviata is of waltzes. But after 3½ hours the audience had had more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rite of Autumn | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

At the curtain call, Williams bows deeply to the book before him. But though the words he reads are Dickens', it is also Williams' skill as an editor and actor which makes Bleak House an unusual and fascinating performance.

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, | Title: Bleak House | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

In Big Tiger and Christian, Fritz Mühlenweg has written a jumbo-sized adventure story for youngsters old enough to read for themselves. His story begins with a martial skirr in the Peking of 1922. Warlord General Wu Pei-fu is marching on the city. Christian, the son of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

Miracle in Milan might seem like a humorous bit of Communist propaganda, if it were not for all the supernatural. Its characters are takeoffs on a decadent capitalistic population. The rich industrialists are all bleated and jewlish, which the proletariat is grubby but unbowed, dancing around junk heaps with fixed...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: Miracle in Milan | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

This week, with a driving white drummer and a trumpeter whose favorite range is up with the piccolos, the Duke is raising the roof at Manhattan's Paramount Theater, and later this month he will display his latest style at Carnegie Hall. He no longer has a musical home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Duke's Anniversary | 11/3/1952 | See Source »

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