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With Billy DcWolfe and Hermione Gingold, a huge cast, an army of writers, and a program promising thirty-three scenes, Almanac certainly has everything but the kitchen sink. The sink isn't important, but a disposal unit would help. Stripped of many scenes and corresponding hardly at all to the program, John Murray Anderson's bloated revue still forges along for three hours. There is obviously enough material to fill another hour or two, but on Tuesday at least, the show called it quits at 11:30 and sprung a hasty finale on an audience settling down for the night...
TIME'S Letters Department finally located Concertmaster Gingold, who had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, and forwarded his address to Reader Efrati. A few weeks later, back came a letter from Efrati announcing that his hunch was right. "I am happy to inform you," he wrote, "that Mr. Josef Gingold has replied to my letter, and he is the cousin I have been looking for during the past 13 years...
...magazine and the way it puts the information in front of the reader, I never miss a single column. I had my reward this week when I unexpectedly discovered something I have spent years looking for." The discovery was the mention of a concertmaster by the name of Josef Gingold, from Detroit. Continued Reader Efrati: "This is the name and most probable profession of my mother's cousin, who, when I last heard, was considered the musical genius of our family. I lost almost my whole family, which was exterminated by the Nazis in Poland. No wonder, then, that...
...baton six years ago on one condition: his board of directors must give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." Since then, he has increased the orchestra's size from 82 to 96, and hired a score or so of musicians (among them Concertmaster Josef Gingold from Detroit) from other organizations. Today, Conductor Szell is content: the Cleveland personnel is "as good as any conductor could wish for." With a whopping $5,000,000 endowment and willing contributors to the annual deficit drive (this year: $110,000), the orchestra's economic position is also...
...hoped that Mr. Goodman, when he grows up, will show his devotion to the ideals of a free world by actions more positive and useful, though possibly not quite as hair-raising. Kurt Gingold...