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...Orpheus, normally sung by a contralto. (Gluck himself wrote the role for a male contralto, later rearranged it for tenor in Paris, where castrati singers were frowned upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader...
...China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald and stayed to open up the whole Belgian Congo for King Leopold II. Through the doors opened by the explorers came a stream of colonizers and empire builders like Cecil Rhodes, bringing with them armies of semiskilled labor from India to help build today's Middle Africa, and to complicate its racial patterns...
...fight to control Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Raider Leopold Silberstein ran up the white flag. He seemed to have little choice, even though he claimed to have bought enough stock (50.4%) to control the company. The trouble was that he had overextended himself to do so. He had tied up nearly 30% of the assets of his Penn-Texas Corp. in Fairbanks, Morse stock, and still owed $12 million, much of it payable in the next few months. So Fairbanks, Morse President Robert H. Morse Jr. played a delaying game. He won a court injunction barring Silberstein from voting his stock...
...sale of the stock Penn-Texas lost heavily, but the fight had also been costly to Fairbanks, Morse. When the battle started, its stock was selling for only about $40. Thus, it was buying Penn-Texas stock at an inflated price caused chiefly by Leopold Silberstein's buying during the proxy fight...
PEACE MOVES will probably be resumed between Penn-Texas Corp. and Fairbanks, Morse, although F-M President Robert Morse rejected first bid by P-T President Leopold Silberstein. Trying to get off hook of big proxy fight debt, Silberstein suggested a new Fairbanks board of five Silberstein men, five Morse men, one impartial member, with Silberstein man as chairman, Morse as president. Morse wants a settlement giving him working control, says he will press suit against Silberstein's "illegal" deals in Fairbanks stock...