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Other noteworthy new records: four of Handel's works for Ancient Instruments and Soprano, with Valarie Lamoree and the Pro Musica Antiqua of New York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and Demons, sung by Bass-Baritone George London (Columbia); Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, played by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra under Manuel Rosenthal (Capitol); Howard Swanson's Short Symphony, Franz Litschauer conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard); music by Rossini, Cambini and Bonporti, played by the Virtuosi...
...Playhouse (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC). Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman, with Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer...
...Rodzinski replied that he had surrendered his copy long ago, after repeated requests from the Soviet embassy. Finally, Nabokov found a copy in Vienna. Now Paris will get to hear a concert excerpt played by the Berlin RIAS (American zone radio) orchestra under the baton of Hungarian Exile Ferenc Fricsay...
...Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience...
...politics. Most of his adult life has been spent either in Hungary's jails or in Moscow's schools for sabotage. On Moscow's orders, he framed Cardinal Mindszenty, executed his colleague Laszlo Rajk, helped the Russians to kidnap Majority Leader Bela Kovacs, and forced Premier Ferenc Nagy into exile...