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Music for Millions (M.G.M.) has two sterling assets: Margaret O'Brien and Jimmy Durante. June Allyson, as a pregnant bull-fiddler in a symphony orchestra conducted by Jose Iturbi, also performs with touching intensity. But the plethora of money lavished on this production, contrasted with the paucity of imagination and taste, makes an excessively lopsided picture. Typical stupenditure: the Misses Allyson and O'Brien walking mile after mile up the nave of a gigantic studio church, at thousands of dollars per step...
Birth of a Crusader. A few months later in Manhattan an itinerant Yankee cobbler, house painter, fiddler, schoolmaster and inventor named Rufus Porter boldly started a weekly called Scientific American. Last week Scientific American, publishing its 100th anniversary issue, paused to celebrate an eventful career...
...from a description supplied by a Polish underground officer, limned one of these epics of revenge (see cut). Several months ago death was decreed for Gestapo-man Franz Buerckl, Governor of Warsaw's Pawiak Prison. One day, as Buerckl walked the streets with wife and child, a Polish fiddler whipped a tommy gun from his violin case, shot Buerckl down, fought it out with his motorcycle escort...
...original Budapest Quartet, which toured Europe and the U.S. in the 1920s, was as 100% Hungarian as goulash. By 1927 its second fiddler left and a Russian took his place. By 1932 there was not a Hungarian left. Today the four are 43-year-old first violinist Josef Roismann from Odessa; 35-year-old second violinist Alexander Schneider from Vilna; 43-year-old violist Boris Kroyt from Odessa; 39-year-old cellist Mischa Schneider, brother of Alexander...
...fish up another candidate. His present stooge in the Governorship, dull, nervous little Prentice Cooper, will be finishing a third term and ineligible for reelection. Smart Hillbilly Acuff, whose political ambitions may well hinge on their publicity value to him, said only "I know I'm a good fiddler-but I don't know that I'd make a good Governor...