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...somehow felt that learning everything about the opponent's strategy, weaknesses and day-by-day problems was worth the high risk. They perhaps hoped for some startling revelation that could be used against the Democrats. Given Nixon's past campaign performances???the narrow loss to John Kennedy, the last-minute slippage to Hubert Humphrey?a sense of insecurity may have lured his aides into wanting to seize every advantage, even if illegal, this time...
This grim but lively melodrama, even more than her earlier vehicles (Always Goodby, Wicked) shows the potentialities of Elissa Landi as an emotional actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances???by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa...
...best symphonic work submitted by a U. S. composer. Last spring Judges Walter Damrosch, Serge Koussevitzky, Leopold Stokowski, Alfred Hertz and Frederick Stock voted the prize to Ernest Bloch for a symphony named America. In late December, almost simultaneously, the five conductor-judges will give America its first performances???Dec. 20 in Manhattan and San Francisco, Dec. 21 in Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. Other major orchestras may lift their voices in unison...
...There was no "modernizing," but the strictest possible adherence, to the purest Mozart traditions. Herr Schalk accompanied sections of the Don Giovanni on a harpsichord, that ancient ancestor of the pianoforte which Mozart himself loved for its faint and delicate tinkle. Restraint and sobriety characterized the whole set of performances???and the language used by the singers was German. Paris did not object...
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