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Finaly, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, deml-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his acclaimed performance at the Cloisters; Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
...tours of many continental orchestras. He also toured South and Central America, but did not appear in this country until he conducted at the Empire State Music Festival in 1960. Since then he has led the Symphony of the Air in New York and made recordings with them for Decca...
Last week the U.S. Justice Department withdrew its objections to MCA's plans to take over both Decca Records and Universal Pictures, a Decca subsidiary. MCA, with its Revue Productions, is already the most successful TV producer in the U.S. Now the company is going to produce feature films, becoming a sort of instant major studio-and perhaps soon the biggest...
...civil suit in Los Angeles federal court last week, the U.S. charged that the "predatory" activities of The Octopus violated the Celler-Kefauver anti-merger act. The charges noted that MCA recently acquired Decca Records, and, through Decca, control of Universal Pictures Co., Inc. MCA already owns Universal's lot. leases part of it back to the movie company for $1,000,000 a year. Now, by taking over Universal itself, MCA might well be in a position to dominate the movies as it already dominates the canned-TV business...
...Justice Department wants much more than that. Convinced that MCA's divestiture plan would still leave the talent operation under the control of MCA executives, the Government demands that it be dissolved completely and the stars set free. The Justice Department also wants MCA's acquisition of Decca and Universal rescinded...