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...conscience drives him into court to undo his own reflection of the lynchers' fury. Reminiscent in its power of last year's famed Informer, though far more spectacular, a good deal less sincere, Fury is a triumph for Joseph Mankiewicz, young M-G-M producer, and Fritz Lang, monocled Austrian director (M), whose first U. S. effort...
...their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...
...King Steps Out (Columbia) is a Central European romp in which Soprano Grace Moore sings six songs from an old Fritz Kreisler operetta called Cissy. One of the songs, Madly in Love, became more celebrated than it deserved when Miss Moore, who sang it in peasant garb while milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
...ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner, who proved himself an expert opera conductor in Philadelphia last year, is now at London's Covent Garden...
...each day this week is to be heard Grieg's "Sonata in C Minor", piano and violin played by Serge Rachmaninoff and Fritz Kreisler...