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...gargantuan appetite for adventure. In 90 minutes it wolfs down an Indian massacre, two murders, a barroom brawl, an earthquake, a fistfight on a cliff top and a mess of hocus-pocus dealing with the whereabouts of a fabulous treasure trove. Leading the sepia-colored scramble for gold are Ida Lupino and Glenn Ford. Kids under twelve may believe in their adventures...
Toscanini was, said the critics (and for the sixth time), the best "regular symphony conductor": his performance of Verdi's A'ida (TIME, April' 4) was "the outstanding event of the year," and the National Broadcasting Go. (which has put Toscanini on the air for nine years without benefit of sponsors) was "the network most faithful to serious music...
...report was a cold, painstaking case history of six German women, taken to Russia in 1945, who were released last summer and made their way to the British zone of Germany. They were Ida and Elli, both 21; Hanna, 24; Margret, 26; Agnes, 32 and Emma, 37. Cambridge University's Dr. Reginald Dean, engaged in nutrition research in Wuppertal, took down their stories. Excerpts...
...Agnes was put to work in a lime kiln . . . Ida and Margret . . . worked in a peat field . . . Elli worked in a coal mine . . . Emma was put to work in a tile factory. All the women stated that a specific amount of work known as the 'norm' had to be done each day ... In most cases good work guaranteed better food. All the women said that they were worked to their utmost capacity...
...Furtwangler's memory was musty: A'ida was a hit from the first, Carmen and La Boheme only middling flops compared with La Traviata and The Barber of Seville, which were at first all but hooted off the stage...