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Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle (Mercury) is a worthy love offering by the friends of the late Bela Bartok. It is an all-Hungarian recording of Bartok's only opera, with Old Friend Basso Mihaly Szekely singing the lead, and Old Friend Antal Dorati conducting. The performances are more devoted than the music justifies: the opera remains a penny poem...
Died. Elisabeth Marie Petznek, 79, only child of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stephanie of Belgium and last link to the 1889 "Mystery of Mayerling." in which her father and Baroness Marie Vetsera died in an apparent murder-suicide pact that left the Austro-Hungarian throne of the Habsburgs without a male heir; in Hütteldorf, Austria. Only five when her father died, she grew up to marry Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz but grew steadily disenchanted with her royal life, divorced him after 23 years to drift into socialism, marry Austrian Social Democrat Leopold Petznek...
...length would be to pander to its pretentions; it is noted were only because it has come to this country from a even-months' run in London, and because the Wilbur Theatre, for reasons unknown, has seen fit to shelter it. The play concerns itself with the Hungarian revolution of 1956, and with Britain's reaction to it (No doubt his is why the British liked it: the play ignores America, word that crops up in the dialogue only as an antonym for Russia). A young freedom fighter, who calls himself" just a rebel, filled with hate," flies to Britain...
While press agents nervously scurried about, Eva Six made her Boston debut yesterday. Who's Eva Six? Well, that's what we wanted to know, so we eagerly accepted an invitation to dine with the girl American International Pictures is calling the new "Hungarian Sex Bombshell...
Died. Ferenc Fricsay, 48. energetic and far-ranging Hungarian-born conductor, at one time or another director of the Budapest and Munich State Operas, frequent guest conductor with the Salzburg Festival, Milan's La Scala and orchestras throughout Europe, but best known for his precise, cold-fire style that in the early 1950s raised the Berlin Radio Symphony to rank as one of Europe's best; in Basel, Switzerland...