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...25th anniversary of his first regular teaching appointment, Manhattan's New School for Social Research staged a retrospective concert of his music. To mid-century ears, Cowell's once-daring innovations sounded misty and soothing. His forearm "tone clusters'' (in Trumpet of Angus Og and Deep Tides) aroused no indignant gasps. When he reached into the vitals of the piano to stroke and pluck the strings (in How Old Is Song), the effect was gently harplike. One movement of his Violin Sonata sounded rather like a Danny Boy whose melody had been opened out like...
Racing to get their horror pictures to moviegoers, two producers ran head on into title trouble last week. The opponents: Albert Zugsmith, producer of a forthcoming work called The Great Green Og, and Ivan Tors, producer...
...Og is described as twice the size of a man, has green blood, and rules the planet Aphrodite. Gog is an aluminum, electronically controlled mechanical slave with five arms. He moves about on a treadmill like a tank, and, with a chum named Magog, works with atomic material...
...with rage, announced: "I registered my title long before Tors got it into his head. We have priority. Tors was planning a picture called Space Station, U.S.A., and he shot it. After he finished it he started to register a new title, Gog. Naturally, I protested the similarity between Og and Gog. We're trying to be friendly enemies about this thing. I even went to a party with Tors the other night. But my feeling is, if he comes out first with Gog, that ruins our title . . . His Gog is a mechanical monster. My Og is a missing...
This week in Manhattan, a Motion Picture Association committee was busily trying to unsnarl the whole gog-awful mess. If they fail, according to one Hollywoodian, there are only two courses open. Zugsmith and Tors will be forced to 1) join forces and shoot Og Meets Gog, or 2) forget the monsters altogether, since shooting may be too good for them...