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Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Unlike most movie music, this still breathes after being separated from its celluloid twin, a documentary film by Pare Lorentz. Manhattan's fastidious Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson, an expatriate from Kansas City, Mo., makes his folk material sound as authentic as Midwestern prairie wheat, but his handling of jazz smacks more of corn. Recording: excellent...
...house. "Billy has changed," says an admiring friend, "from a Lindy table-hopper to a sumptuous host." The Rose parties are small but as meticulously cast as a Broadway production. "Conversation," says Billy, "is the password." It admits such famed raconteurs as George Kaufman, Ferenc Molnar, Ludwig Bemelmans and Leopold Stokowski...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). An All-Russian program: Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, Shostakovich's Sixth Symphony, a Tchaikovsky song, Solitude, and excerpts from Stravinsky's Fire Bird. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Larger more convenient accommodations in the Austrian castle of Leopold-skron, and the first definite lineup of a faculty for the 80 or more European students who will study American civilization at Salzburg this summer were announced last night by the Student Council as the scheme now ceases to be a project and becomes an assured reality...
Discovered living in the French village of Matour was another old favorite: Spanish Dancer Caroline Otero, once the idol of a dozen capitals and a good many capitalists. Oftenest-told tale of "La Belle Otero" is that Belgium's Leopold II once put her up as stakes in a gambling game with England's Edward VII, lost, and paid. Now in her 70s, still tall and stately, Caroline lives quietly in a small house on an allowance from an old admirer. "I spent the weekend regularly with Edward VII," she reminisced happily last week. "The Kaiser Wilhelm...