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...course it's obvious why Kerr gave Candide such an all-out panning," a musician in the Broadway show's orchestra told a friend last week. "He's a Catholic and the book's on the Index...
...cast of the film reads something like an index of the modern French stage. It includes, among others, Gerard Philippe, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gelin, Simone Simon, Anton Walbrook, and Jean-Louis Barrault. All of these actors give fine performances, though two at least stand out from the rest: Walbrook, who plays the sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls...
...income (before and after taxes), nonfarm employment and average take-home pay of factory workers were all at record peaks. But in and out of this good news ran the red line of danger: between September and October, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week, the Consumer Price Index (1947-49: 100) jumped 0.5% to hit an all time high of 117.7. The rise, the seventh in eight months, meant that the cost of living is now 2.4% dearer than a year ago. Main reason for the October jump: higher price tags on the new cars...
...mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
Part of the trouble is that production, already at a peak 144% of the 1947-49 index, is increasingly hard put to supply the insatiable demand for goods and services. On top of that, the enormous expansion programs for virtually every U.S. industry may stretch the economy even thinner next year. After pouring some $29 billion into new investment in 1955, U.S. business expanded at the rate of $36 billion in 1956's first half, about 25% faster than last year...