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PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONY NO. 6 (RCA Victor). The fourth album in the Boston Symphony's Prokofiev series is devoted to his next to last symphony, which commemorated the end of World War II. Written when Prokofiev was a semi-invalid, the sixth is largely elegiac, for "wounds that can't be healed." Erich Leinsdorf distinguishes subtly between each muted mood, first sorrowing, then celebrating with sober splendor, and kicking off the traces for a jaunty, jazzy finale...
Healing & Dealing. Yet somehow, beset with profit fever, talent anemia, labor pains, galloping costitis and an acute customer deficiency, the Fabulous Invalid staggers into her spurious finery every fall. And somehow she manages to last the winter. If a cure is possible, Merrick has not found it. Yet in a spectacular series of operations that involve both healing and dealing, cutting throats and cauterizing abuses, he has contrived to keep the patient above-ground and to generate a genuine hope that U.S. theater can eventually get back on its-well, anyway, on its two left feet. That hope, David Merrick...
...everybody agrees. "Merrick is not the right doctor for this Invalid," says a producer. "He's a quack who's got the patient hooked on drugs." Merrick's critics-a cast of thousands-ad mit that what can be done by industrial methods, he does well: the package is attractive, the contents safe-but unoriginal. "The man's not creative," a director says. "He's a packager and an importer." .All but four (The Matchmaker, Maria Golovin, Milk Train, I Was Dancing) of the 19 Merrick shows that originated in America were musicals or comedies with more Merrick than merit...
...Actor Vittorio Gassman, twice mar ried (to Actresses Nora Ricci and Shelley Winters) and twice civilly divorced, is asking the Rota to annul his church marriage to Ricci on grounds that she did not accept the indissolubility of marriage at the time she contracted it, which would make it invalid in the eyes of the church. The annulment, if granted, would permit Gassman to wed French Actress Juliette Mayniel, who gave birth to their son Alessandro last month...
This may gradually change the church's view on what constitutes a valid marriage. If the chief end of marriage is conjugal love, says one theologian, its absence could flaw the marriage contract to the point that the union itself becomes invalid...