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...Newcomers. Last week both claque and audience found several things worth applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
...streets over which stretched banners emblazoned with new Yugoslavia's red star, Russia's hammer & sickle. Big pictures of Russia's Stalin, Yugoslavia's Tito stared side by side from every shop window. The grey-clad troops of the Red Army rolled ceaselessly toward the Hungarian front in U.S. Lend-Lease trucks. Overhead, Russian Stormoviks and Yaks roared...
Karski was sent to France. With a Polish prince, a young lieutenant and a guide, he went to the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathian range. They posed as a skiing party, never speaking to passersby, sleeping in mountain caves until they reached the Hungarian border. Karski met an underground agent in a border town, was motored to Budapest, hidden in a hospital, given papers to prove he had been in Budapest since the beginning of the war. He took the Simplon-Orient Express to France, six weeks of freedom, and talks with General Sikorski...
...Russians were holding off direct attack to save the city or save their troops, no one could tell. But the Germans said Budapest would never be declared an open city, announced they would "defend it street by street without regard to consequences to the city or its population." The Hungarian puppet Government echoed them uneasily, prodded its soldiers with promises. Said the War Minister: troops will receive higher pay, postwar jobs, and "I have every hope that every fighting man will be provided with adequate warm clothing...
Because exhibitions as varied in content as "Art of the United Nations" depend considerably on good showmanship, the Institute hired a topnotch designer to install it: 37-year-old, Hungarian-born Gyorgy Kepes (pronounced Keppish), now teaching at Brooklyn College. It was his idea that an antique Persian medallion carpet should hang free from the wall, emblazoned with lights; that Seurat's huge Grande Jatte should be isolated, hung low, placed near a miniature formal garden which complemented the painting's colors; that an Aztec Goddess of Death be mounted on a hillock with rocks, gravel, cacti. Kepes...