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...would instantly recognize the background of the composite cover. It represents a uranium atom, one of the pertinent symbols of their tradition-shattering technology. It comes from a glowing model made for a LIFE photograph a dozen years ago by Photographer Fritz Goro. The ten tedious days he spent doing it almost qualified Goro for a scientific degree. Clear Christmas-tree lights, dyed and redyed until they reached just the right shade, were used for the protons and neutrons that cluster in the nucleus of the atom...
What puzzles me is why Fritz Loewe did not mention his wonderful music in Victor McLaglen's The Informer, long before his success in Brigadoon...
Verdi: Requiem (Leontyne Price, Jussi Bjoerling, Rosalind Elias, Giorgio Tozzi; Vienna Philharmonic and Vienna Society of the Friends of Music, under Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). A clean-lined, beautifully balanced and honest version, full of tranquil breathing space. The performances by Tenor Bjoerling, in his last, full recording role before his death, and Soprano Price, at the incandescent top of her form, stand out as stunning achievements...
...when Lerner married Marion Bell, Loewe simultaneously started an affair with her understudy; the affair (eleven years) lasted longer than the marriage (two years). Explains an old friend of Lerner's: "Alan thinks he has to marry and have children with any woman he gets involved with." As for Fritz, he has been separated from his wife for eleven years, has made a sizable settlement: $135,000 down and $10,000 a year for life "her life," he explains wryly, "not mine." He has no children, says he does not want any because he hates noise (he keeps earplugs with...
...Collaborators. No excess of wives, girl friends, possessions or noise has ever seriously interfered with L. & L.'s work. The composer-librettist relationship can produce some extraordinary cases of love-hate, as in the case of Gilbert and Sullivan. Professionally, Lerner and Loewe are marvelously meshed, and Fritz even goes so far as to say of Alan, "I love him." But friendship is not really necessary for artistic partnership or for marriage...