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...reason for the price-cutting wave was the government's announced intention to end resale price maintenance, the British equivalent of U.S. Fair Trade, which has been on the books for 60 years. RPM has long been condemned by Labor, but defended by the free-enterprising Conservatives, largely because half a million shopkeepers are registered Tories. Most small shopkeepers see in RPM their last chance of coexisting with supermarkets and discount stores. Even with the protection of price fixing-and despite a native British dislike for impersonal service-the number of shops with fewer than ten branches declined from...
...Tory leader really tried to touch RPM until Edward ("Ted") Heath, the energetic Minister of Industry and Trade under Sir Alexander Douglas-Home, rose in the House of Commons two weeks ago and pronounced resale price maintenance "incompatible with our objective of encouraging effective competition and keeping down costs and prices." Despite lingering Tory doubts, Prime Minister Douglas-Home stood firmly behind Heath, who promised that a bill would be ready for Parliament's consideration within a fortnight. "It cannot be in the interests of the consumer," said Douglas-Home, "to peg prices at artificially high levels...
...Maxwell has paced Feydeau's farce at a breathtaking rate--so fast, in fact, that the actors sometimes sound like a long-playing record at 45 rpm. But the speed is necessary to preserve the absurdity and humor of the script...
Bobby Darin has yet to release a 45 rpm version of the Theme from Mother Courage, but several other Brecht records are now on the market. Easily the worst is the original cast recording of Brecht on Brecht, a show in which they--as one critic put it--try to make a liberal out of Brecht. A record on the Riverside label, Bentley on Brecht, shows the playwright and his critical champion to good advantage. Mr. Bentley (once a concert pianist) does not have a smooth voice but it could be argued that Brecht didn't, either...
...Liszt's sonata in B minor (COLH 72), carried out by the unbelievably agile fingers and arms of Vladimir Horowitz, has filled a huge hole in the record catalogue. The release is part of Angel's "Great recordings of the Century" series, and is taken from a 78 rpm recorded in 1932, when Horowitz was at his best. Though the stereo addict will wince at an occasional impurity in sound, Horowitz's performance is superb. The Angel version far surpasses the few recordings of Liszt's sonata available earlier...