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Listening Ears. Communist broadcasts no longer refer to French politicians as "valets of American imperialism," or to French businessmen as "capitalist bloodsuckers." Pravda has recently been lauding the French people's "energy, diligence, love of country and liberty." Sergei Obraztsov, director of Moscow's Central Puppet Theater, has been in Paris gushing that he loved France because "we and you have lived through the same struggle against a common enemy...
...rainstorm. The Kabaka's 300-lb. sister, Princess Zalwanga, collapsed and died; his pretty young Nabagereka (Queen) retired with her ladies in waiting and sent out a message that she was "bewildered and grief-stricken." Buganda nationalists, who have previously attacked the Kabaka as a playboy and British puppet, quickly reversed themselves and cried for "our beloved King." In the Great Lukiko (native council), Prime Minister Paulo Kavuma announced that he had radioed London, beseeching the British government to please send Mutesa home...
...Izmailova, ballerina of the Uzbek Opera Theatre, turned up with a trio of squat-dancers. Dressed in traditional Uzbek pantaloons, she wriggled and shook various parts of her body separately and in unison with dramatic overtones ranging from the flirtatious to the provocative. Sergei Obraztsov, whose official title is Puppet Master of the Central Puppet...
...first-class performance of glove-puppet pantomime. Avner Barayev, a virtuoso with the tambourine-like doira, gave a spirited demonstration, beating a pair of them against his knees and spinning them on his fingertips, and kept his rhythms tapping for ten minutes at a time...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony; Mercury); Falla's one-act opera, Master Peter's Puppet Show (F. Charles Adler conducting the Vienna Philharmonia; SPA); Great Arias from Bach's Cantatas (Hildegarde Rossl-Majdan and Hugues Cuenod; Bach Guild...