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...adaptation was something Playwright Maxwell Anderson apparently dashed off on the back of an old theater program. Composer Bernard Herrmann contributed a few carols lacking either spirit or strength to presume on old standbys, and some solo songs (lyrics also by Anderson) that seemed saccharine even from Tiny Tim (Christopher Cook). Occasionally Fredric March as Scrooge showed some of his talent (as when he tried to wish away Marley's ghost as a case of indigestion), but for the most part, he seemed to be trying to caricature Scrooge Emeritus, the late Lionel Barrymore. The production was technically instructive...
CONQUEST BY MAN (455 pp.)-Paul Herrmann-Harper ($6). This is a German scholar's fascinating survey of travel and discovery before Columbus. Author Herrmann has pulled together all sorts of odd bits of learned lore to show that "the world has been since early times almost as great and wide as in our own day." He tells why experts now think that Bronze Age drummers lugged oaken sample cases through north European forests, and how the Egyptians of 4,000 years ago rowed their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense...
Without Commercials. Dickens' A Christmas Carol was the broadcasters' favorite holiday show. Radio had at least four versions, including one starring the late Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. For CBS-TV, Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Composer Bernard Herrmann teamed up to produce a musical Christmas Carol. Fredric March harrumphed and hammed as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone clanked and groaned as Marley's ghost and, although there were occasional tuneful moments, most Dickens' fanciers recoiled from the sight of the Spirit-of-Christmas-Present (Ray Middleton) bursting into operetta-like arias. In Manhattan, no viewer had an excuse...
THOMAS K. HERRMANN Brussels...
...Doges' Palace sat the 88-piece La Fenice Theater Orchestra; on the podium stood the U.S.'s most active musical ambassador to Europe, Manhattan-born Conductor Dean Dixon, 37; on the racks, instead of the usual outdoor fare, was music by modern composers, e.g., Walter Piston, Bernard Herrmann, Benjamin Britten...