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...Canadian controversy over Igor Gouzenko subsided last week with neither side satisfied. In reply to a second U.S. request for an interview with the fugitive Soviet embassy cipher clerk (TIME, Nov. 30), Canada reluctantly agreed to let a U.S. Senate investigator question Gouzenko privately in Canada, but laid down the firm condition that no part of the testimony could be published without specific Canadian permission...
...With Igor Gouzenko back on Page One (see above), another figure from the 1946 Canadian spy trials reappeared in the news. Fred Rose, onetime Communist Member of Parliament who was convicted on Gouzenko's evidence of passing secret information to Russia, turned up in Red-run Czechoslovakia. Rose, who had been living quietly in Montreal since his release from prison in 1951, left Canada by ship in October with a valid passport...
...more severe tastes, the Soviets also sent a young violinist named Igor Oistrakh. He played Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic, and the critics approved to a man. The Times was relatively reserved, praising his "artistic integrity and surety of execution." The Daily Express' Cecil Smith, usually a hard man to please, went overboard: "Not since the piano playing of the 23-year-old Horowitz burst on Western ears 25 years ago has Russia given us so staggeringly gifted a young musician...
...Igor Oistrakh, but the Russians were too busy for interviews. The main facts about Igor: he is the son of famed Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh (TIME, July...
Aleksandr Boredin's first musical since Prince igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With a vigorous cootch dance, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "CAll me in the harom; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistringuishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adien without undue ado"), a script short on humor of any kind...