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...Died. Ralf Torngren, 62, Finland's Foreign Minister since 1959, a mild-mannered peacemaker who, as Premier for five months in 1954 and Foreign Minister under two other governments, helped his nation preserve its precarious neutrality; of a heart attack; in Turku, Finland...
Edward Finnegan's Harry Hope is perfect; Judge Springer's Hickey--which is an even more difficult role--is very close to perfect. Edward Zang (Willie), Ralf Coleman (Joe) and Michael Lilenthal (Hugo) begin well and get better as they go along...
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, Love Duet (Helen Traubel, soprano; Torsten Ralf, tenor; Herta Glaz, contralto, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Busch conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Traubel & Ralf take the famed love duet faster than Flagstad and Melchior. The result is surprisingly warmer, and the orchestral setting is fuller. Recording: good...
...could bring Hogarth up to date. Before long he finds himself suspected of murder and hired by several conflicting sides in a fight whose meaning and dimension he only gradually finds out. It involves invaluable jade, the slaughter of a gigolo, a psychoanalytic theosophist (Otto Kruger), a charlatan (Ralf Harolde), an aging multimillionaire (Miles Mander), his sexy young wife (Claire Trevor), and her angry stepdaughter (Anne Shirley). The wife treats the shabby detective with brazen cozyness, the theosophist slams him across the chops with a pistol, the charlatan pumps him full of dope, the stepdaughter feeds him alternate Scotch...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 3 (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden State Opera chorus, Karl Bohm conducting, with Hans Hermann Nissen, Torsten Ralf, Margarete Teschemacher and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 30 sides). Superb singing, perfect teamwork, and the latest touches in crystal-clear recording, make this complete and bulky last act of Wagner's great comic opera the record of the year...