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Schubert: Symphony No. 6 in C Major (London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 7 sides). Sir Thomas makes a better showing than Schubert in one of the first recordings of a little-heard work that sounds like second-drawer Mozart...
Disney's new top-drawer talent will be paid on a picture-to-picture basis. Probable pittance for the literary help: $2,500 a week...
...Quarterbacks. The Navy had coasted, apparently confident that Congress would fall for no hifalutin notions about air power and that in the end the whole unpleasantness would blow over. Tardily the Navy tried to stiffen its defense, called in two of its younger top-drawer air admirals (both aged 49) to quarterback its plays. One was lean, whip-smart Rear Admiral Arthur Radford, father of the Navy's wartime air training program and commander of a carrier task group in the Pacific War. The other was quiet, studious Rear Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, "brain" of Admiral Nimitz' Pacific...
Saratoga Trunk (Warner) has been packed by expert hands with practically everything a film needs for a triumphant box-office tour. In the top drawer of this expensive portmanteau, Ingrid Bergman is wonderfully bewitching in a black wig and bustle, and Gary Cooper drawls and sprawls in his best skin-tight cow-pants. Edna Ferber's plot slides them expertly through a period-piece romance without missing one of the primary Hollywood emotions...