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Next to the annual Academy Awards presentation, Hollywood's highest social rite is the full-blown premiére (pronounced pre-meer). Last week, close to the deadline for the annual Oscar sweepstakes, 20th Century-Fox shot the works on the premiere of its own contender, Darryl F. Zanuck's war film, Twelve O'Clock High. The result was the very model of the full, colossal treatment...
...respected organization. Hendl has continued Dorati's tradition of introducing new works. With Rudolf Firkusny at the piano last month, he conducted the orchestra in the world premiere of Bohuslav Martinu's Piano Concerto No. j. This week, in an all-Strauss program, he presented the U.S. première of one of the late composer's last works, his Concertino for Clarinet, Bassoon, Harp and Strings...
...Baum, chairman of City Center's executive committee (and a director of the Metropolitan Opera as well), the enthusiasm seemed to justify a little spreading out. This season Balanchine was able to add to his repertory four ballets, including Firebird and a smashing new Bourèe Fantasque premièred later in the week...
...without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were Nazi war-hate films, and that they had had their premières in Berlin in 1941-the year the Nazis attacked Russia...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Première of Don Gillis' The Man Who Invented Music, a fantasy...