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...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...
...most familiar complaint of modern composers is that they don't get a hearing. On that score, Igor Stravinsky has little to complain of. In the past month, packed houses in Manhattan had heard everything from his popular Petrouchka (1911) to his dusty-dry Symphony in C (1940). Even his opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex had been uncovered for the first time in 17 years. Bobbing, crouching and flapping his arms like a grotesque little bird, Composer Stravinsky had conducted several performances of his music himself...
Hotelman Young's troubles started fast. Many (45%) of the guests had barely been shown their rooms before they were clamoring to be changed to different quarters. Society Reporter Igor Cassini (Hearst's Cholly Knickerbocker) and his new wife (Elizabeth Darrach Waters) walked into their suite and found it occupied by Cassini's ex-wife ("Bootsie" McDonnell-also a columnist), who had been ushered in by mistake. (They compromised on adjoining suites.) Kaiser-Frazer's Joe Frazer and Otis & Co.'s Cyrus Eaton, currently feuding over K-F's stock troubles, spent the time...
...Married. Igor ("Ghighi") Loiewski-Cassini, 32, squealy Hearst chitchatterer ("Cholly Knickerbocker"); and Elizabeth Darrah Waters, 20, stately blonde ex-model; he for the second time (his first was Washington Times-Herald Chitchatterer Austine "Bootsie" McDonnell), she for the first; in Sea Cliff...
...book out last week, called Poetics of Music (Harvard; $2.50), Igor Stravinsky tried to explain how he does write music. He found it hard to be explicit, but he did succeed in being unromantic. Wrote he: "This appetite [for composing] is not at all a fortuitous thing like inspiration, but as habitual and periodic ... as a natural need." Stravinsky prefers to call himself an inventor rather than a composer. "For the act of invention implies the necessity of a lucky find. ... A composer improvises aimlessly, the way an animal grubs about. . . . I suddenly stumble upon something unexpected. At the proper...