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...Dutch scholar Abraham Bredius pared the total to about 620, and last year the German Kurt Bauch brought the number to 550. The end is not in sight. To be published in the U.S. in October is an other, still more definitive catalogue by The Netherlands' Horst Karel Gerson. At most it accepts, without reservations, 450 Rembrandts.* Many scholars feel that de-attribution has gone too far. In his 1964 study, Harvard's Jakob Rosenberg, considered to be ultraconservative in his choices, relisted 33 Rembrandts that Bredius had disqualified. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts recently looked...
Biting Satire. These days, Czechoslovakia's writers specialize in biting satire on Communist bureaucracy. Their work is in the tradition of Kafka and Karel Capek, whose play R.U.R. first introduced the concept of a robot. In The Memorandum, a popular play by Vaclav Havel, the main character gets an important memorandum in an impenetrable official language; in order to get permission to learn the language, he must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways...
...brothers when they spot moles the size of silver dollars on each other's wrists. Enter Winifred Goodman, a piquant blonde who lectures the customers on the evils of drink. She is met with a shower of catcalls and booze. But then appears Lemonade Joe, played by Karel Fiala, an actor who looks like a reincarnation of William S. Hart. He heroically shoots a fly in mid-air and scatters the crowd...
Less Hypocrisy. Along with this shift came the fresh realization that audiences and their attitudes have changed. They are younger and they carry more intellectual clout. Says Karel Reisz, who directed Morgan!: "The literacy gap between the people who are making films and those who are seeing them has narrowed." The kids still flip for spoof spectaculars like Goldfinger, but they just don't believe in 40-acre bathrooms and proscenium-size smiles. "The grand image no longer awes the spectator," says Director Claud Lelouch (Un Homme et Une Femme). "He recognizes a smooth but forced décor and performance...
...KAREL GOTT (Supraphon). A pleasant assortment of popular, musical-comedy and rock-'n'-roll songs sung by Karel Gott, a sort of young Frantisek Czinatra...