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...Greatest of All . . ." In Shorewood, a suburb of Milwaukee, strapping, 17-year-old George Kalman, once a Hungarian, rolled up a sleeve, displayed the blue, tattooed numbers of the concentration camp on his arm. His hardest problem in the U.S., he said, had been "to adjust myself to being a human being again, not just a number." Sent to the U.S. by United Service for New Americans, Inc., he spent a year in the Milwaukee Jewish Children's home, now lives with foster parents. At Shorewood High School, he plays football, boxes, is an orator of parts...
...thousands of D.P.s in Europe, George Kalman's temple of liberty was still a remote sanctuary. Last week, two Democratic senators proposed that 200,000 displaced persons be admitted to the U.S. in the next two years. A Republican measure would halve even that number...
Marinka (music by Emmerich Kalman; book and lyrics by George Marion Jr. & Karl Farkas; produced by Jules J. Leventhal & Harry Howard) is the cinema Mayerling in routine operetta form-which means Mayerling with a happy ending but some fairly unhappy flourishes en route...
...such, Marinka has its points-such as: Composer Kalman's (Sari, Countess Maritza) tuneful if highly derivative music, and Albertina Rasch's conventionally pretty dances. In addition, both Howard Bay's sets and Mary Grant's costumes have a more than popular charm. But more than offsetting these assets is the fundamental fact that Marinka has been cast as limply as it was conceived. The two lovers have all the Old World grace of northern Indiana, and no one else in the cast, save for a comedy siren named Luba Malina, has a scrap of real...
...music proves the biggest disappointment. Emmerick Kalman's score cannot make up its mind whether it is trying to imitate Strauss's "Rosalinda" or the Rodgers technique. It falls somewhere in the middle. However, two or three songs are likely candidates for popular favor, "Sigh by Night," "One Last Love Song," and "Treat a Woman Like a Drum...