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David Hays '52 has designed some fitting modernistic settings. He clearly indicates the shifts of locale between Bohemia and Sicilia by suspending representations of two different suns overhead, with a Damoclean sword for the trial scene and a double font for the final reconciliation scene. The sheep-shearing festival, with the whole stage and its inhabitants bathed in garlands, is a delight to the eye. Marc Blitzstein has composed rather modern music--appropriately dissonant or consonant as the situation warrants. The backstage instrumentalists are not yet wholly at ease in their parts, but a few more performances will fix that...
Before the U.S. District Court in Chicago last week, Du Pont answered the Government's proposed plan to eliminate Du Font's control of General Motors. Du-Pont flatly said that it would fight the Government's proposal requiring it to distribute two-thirds of its 63 million G.M. shares to its stockholders over a period of ten years, sell the remaining one-third on the open market (TIME, Nov. 4). Said Du Pont: "A harsh, unreasonable and wholly unnecessary penalty...
...reason for Du Font's turndown of the Government plan was an Internal Revenue Service ruling that would cost Du Pont stockholders millions. IRS ruled that the G.M. stock, if distributed, would be taxable at ordinary income rates when received. If the stock was sold, any profit would be taxed again either as straight income or capital gains. For individual Du Pont stockholders, said President Crawford Greenewalt, income taxes alone would come to an estimated $580 million, plus another $100 million for corporations owning the stock. Moreover, so many shares would be dumped on the market that the market...
...Pont must do is Chicago's Federal Judge Walter J. LaBuy, whose original ruling in favor of Du Pont three years ago was reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Last week he announced that it would probably be September before he could even start hearings on Du Font's proposal...
...Aladdin, a sort of Horatio Alger story smothered in Oriental opulence, had everything except taste. There were fire-eaters, elephants and Chinese superbazaars, and special effects that must have taken all of Sponsor Du Font's chemical resources. The score - his first for TV-seemed not so much by Cole Porter as against him. Cyril Ritchard's sporadic drollery clashed with the eager droolings of the teen-ager's rage, Sal Mineo, whose Aladdin only maddened. As for Perelman, even his "native sportiveness" was lacking. He would probably have done better with one of the earthier versions...