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...Hungarian-born Eugen Varga was a major prophet among Soviet economic seers. He undertook to make an analysis of the war's effect on the economy of capitalist countries. After patient study of the portents, he put his conclusions in a book which was not allowed circulation outside a close circle of party potentates...
...picked up some ideas from Broadway and Hollywood, including pretty girls in the chorus and the use of screen projections for scenery. The Met has snapped up ten of his singers, including Dorothy Kirsten, Regina Resnik, Polyna Stoska. His performances of off-beat operas like Ariadne auf Naxos, and Eugen Onegin play to near-capacity audiences...
Died. Prince Eugen of Sweden, 82, bachelor youngest brother of King Gustav V; of a heart attack; in Stockholm. The prince spent most of his unexciting life painting unexciting landscapes which decorate many a loyal Swedish public building...
...Vienna's most magnificent squares-the Heldenplatz (Square of Heroes), with its huge statues-is now the front yard of the Russian headquarters. Russian soldiers perch like drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Copland's Outdoor Overture, Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Conductor: Hungarian Eugen Szenkar, appearing in his U.S. debut...