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Sibelius: Violin Concerto (Camilla Wicks; Radio-Stockholm Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sixten Ehrling; Capitol). A knowing performance of this old Finnish chestnut by a young American peach. California-born Violinist Wicks, 27, made her first successes touring in Europe, is gradually building an American following. Under her talented fingers, the piece sounds luminous and true, its expression warm but not overheated...
...Father Charles is a forlorn priest who has become the laughingstock of his parish because of his remarkable resemblance to Cinemactor Fernandel as a priest in The Little World of Don Camilla (TIME, Jan. 19, 1953). Gloomily surrounded by packed suitcases, he is about to grow a beard and go to live among the Eskimos when the godfather arrives...
After a stretch in a Parma jail, Italy's serious-minded Humorist Giovanni (The Little World of Don Camilla) Guareschi, sentenced to twelve months for libeling the late Premier Alcide de Gasperi, was sprung conditionally, time off for good behavior. Matter of principle: given a chance to ask for a cut in his sentence last October, Prisoner Guareschi, in no mood for apologies or parole pleas, politely declined the opening, doggedly stuck to his cell...
...plot, which was designed to give the Magnani physiognomy a full workout, concerns a troupe of Italian actors in a Spanish colony in 18th century South America. As Camilla, the troupe's earthy and impetuous leading lady, Miss Magnani wins the love of the colony's viceroy, who is understandably bored with the elegant dullness of his court. He tries to give her his golden coach as a present, but the local nobility objects, and finally Camilla herself must save him his viceroyalty by sacrificing the coach to the Bishop, who seems to be the colony's real boss anyway...
When a priest and a sinner become fond of each other, an account of their genial tilting is apt to make a readable story. Such bestselling authors as Giovanni Gua reschi (The Little World, oj Don Camilla), Bruce Marshall (The World, the Flesh, and Father Smith), and A. J. Cronin (The Keys of the Kingdom) have made the most of it. Now enters Dutch Novelist Arie van der Lugt with The Crazy Doctor, to show that the everlasting contest goes on in Holland too. It is, after all, a universal story, its interest limited only by the writer...