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Although the operatic baritone and the contralto (whose first cinemappearance is, nevertheless, impressive) handle the skittish libretto like a pair of pouter pigeons, they are quite at home in their singing roles. The Straus melodies (My Hero, Sympathy, the title song, etc.), written originally for a lyric soprano and a tenor, have been rearranged and somewhat streamlined. Better are some of the picture's other tunes, Moussorgsky's Song Of The Flea (courtesy of Mr. Eddy), Saint-Saens' My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (Miss Stevens), and Wagner's Evening Star (duet...
Probably the Vichy Government would hesitate to jail or purge 100 elected representatives of the French people from many different parts of France. Although Vichy has abolished Parliament in fact, it has always been skittish about getting rid of the appearance. Parliament's pay was stopped by Vichy's order on Sept. 1, but Marshal Pétain's own acts provide that Parliament shall remain "in existence" until a new Constitution provides for new assemblies. Moreover, the present French Constitution states that the French Parliament shall meet in the capital, and last week this pretense...
...hair turned a shade greyer on the heads of many elder statesmen when ex-Fellow Traveler MacLeish was appointed Librarian of Congress. A Time to Speak, a collection of MacLeish prose of the past decade, should reassure all but the most skittish. Though the original journalistic impact of some of the pieces has been softened by time, most of them show that even in the days of his most furious fellow-traveling Poet MacLeish was chiefly interested in asserting the importance of the poet's role in a world of social change...
...Salt Lake City range is notoriously skittish. A heavy snowfall often knocks its radio beams out of kilter. In its 120-page crash report, CAB told what it had done to make instrument approaches to Salt Lake City safe. Three radio operators in outlying stations were ordered to listen to the range once an hour, be sure it was working as it should. The operator at Salt Lake City had the same duty. And just to make doubly sure, a recorder was installed near the Salt Lake City airport, recorded the functioning of the beam on a paper tape...
...Instruments. He and his pretty, blue-eyed wife, Ditta Pasztory, played the piano parts. New York Philharmonic Tympanist Solly Goodman and Cymbal & Gong Virtuoso Henry Denecke, surrounded by seven drums, two pairs of cymbals, a triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they got it whipped into shape, the sonata sounded like a piano conservatory tinkling sweetly above the din of a well-oiled, distant boiler works. Town Hall's audience applauded loudly at its close...