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Written in 1912, Androcles and the Lion tells of a mild little Greek tailor (Alan Young) who befriends a wounded lion. Later the lion saves the tailor from Christian martyrdom in the Colosseum...
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, conducted by S. A. Samosud; Colosseum, 8 sides LP). A complete recording of this melodious opera, reissued, boasts the manufacturer, from pirated Russian originals (TIME, Sept. 1). A good strong performance, with outstanding voices in virtually every role. Despite some shattering of tone in the choral passages, the recording is fairly good...
Long View. Two companies, Vanguard and Period, apparently think Leeds can make its legal point stick; they go there for all their Russian originals. But Colosseum, the largest U.S. dispenser of Soviet records (35 sets to date), has so far refused to play ball. It proudly admits that its master tapes are smuggled out from under the Iron Curtain. Arguing that Russian composers never see a U.S. royalty check anyway,* it pays nothing more: "Why should we pay dollars to an unfriendly government?" Colosseum plans to continue its releases...
...fall-at advanced prices-in theaters the world over (it is now playing only in the U.S. and London); MGM's home-office agents will personally supervise exploitation, e.g., parades of vestal virgins, chariot-borna gladiators charging through the streets. M-G-M has decided against using the Colosseum for the Roman premiere of Quo Vadis. Acoustics and lighting conditions are just not up to the picture...
G.B.S. might have been startled at some of Producer Pascal's casting: Television Comic Alan Young as Androcles and a professional football player and wrestler named Woody Strode as the lion. But Shaw would undoubtedly have been delighted with the painted backdrop for the Colosseum scenes. Two seats away from a beaming likeness of Pascal is a portrait of (George) Bernard Shaw himself...