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...cases where GOP support of Democratic candidates is the only way to eliminate arch-crooks from city government, the Shattuck-Forbes-Lund advice is correct. But in a year when Republicans might have won several seats on the Council it amounts to a sellout, one which will render the GOP impotent and futureless...
Granted, the prospects for the Boston Republican Party are not bright as to power or future, but this is scant justification for steadfastly going backwards. No matter how honest an administration is at any point in time, the one-party system engendered by such a sellout is automatically dangerous. A system abhorred by democrats since the beginning of this nation, it produces corruption and irresponsibility in governments originally pure. For all of their sincere and intelligent civic mindedness, the prominent Republicans must bear a share of responsibility in this matter...
...sellout crowd of 13,000 jammed into the West Side Tennis Club stadium at Forest Hills last week for the semifinals of the national championship tournament; the biggest U.S. tennis gallery since 1946 was primed for white-hot competition. One bracket pitted Australian Frank Sedgman against Art Larsen, the flashy, unpredictable U.S. champ; the other match paired husky Dick Savitt, who had earned his No. 1 seeded position by knocking off the Australian and Wimbledon titles, against Vic Seixas, flashing the best play of his five-year career...
Last week the performance was a near sellout and a hit. Reason: Berg's tragedy of the simple soldier betrayed by his mistress proved to have so much stage impact that even traditionally conservative Austrians were bowled over. They hardly had time to notice the fact that Berg's music was full of wrenched, tortured and distinctly unconventional effects. Baritone Josef Herrmann sang the title role with pathos, but no mawkishness. Christl Goltz, currently one of Germany's most popular sopranos, was forceful as the wanton mistress. For Stage Director Oscar Fritz Schuh and Conductor Karl Boehm...
...biggest box-office hit of the Metropolitan Opera season (16 sellout performances so far) is the Met's bubbly production of Fledermaus. Last week General Manager Rudolf Bing announced that Fledermaus will be hitting the road next fall and winter in a coast-to-coast, 30-week tour of some 40 cities. Object: added revenue for the Met both in box-office receipts and increased royalties from promotion of the Met recording of Fledermaus for Columbia Records. Said Bing: "It's all in line with our new slogan, 'The Met Helps Itself...