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...Lipkin, 31, Jacob Lateiner, 30, Claude Frank, 32, John Browning, 24, Eugene Istomin, 32, Leon Fleisher, 31, and Canada's Glenn Gould, 25, who has played widely in the U.S. By contrast, Europe has a small handful of young pianists -Austria's Friedrich Gulda and Paul Badura-Skoda, Poland's Andrzej Czajkow-ski. and France's Phillipe Entremont-who are in the same class. The younger pianists are hitting their stride just in time to fill the places being left by an older generation. Some of the Americans are almost sure to step into the shoes...
...TROUT" QUINTET (Schubert): Paul Badura-Skoda, pianist, and Vienna Konzerthaus Quartet...
Enter Hitler (Albin Skoda). The generals give him the bad news; he spits black bile and throws them out. Goebbels brings in the astrologer. "Im August Sieg!" At news of Roosevelt's death, the Führer does a jig. When Speer and Göring try to tell him the war is lost, he vests command in the SS. A squad of Hitler youth, who have done men's work in the battles before Berlin, are marched in to be decorated. Hitler pats their cheeks, pins medals on them and gives each one an éclair...
...power of this picture is the power of the nightmare. The spectator is locked in the sinister bunker like Germany in its obsession, and the end is less an exit than a cure. Actor Skoda, for all the impacted passion of his playing, never really gets the number of the beast, but he manages to suggest both paranoia and genius, and he expounds the lesson of Nazi Germany as shockingly sometimes as if he had borne the head of the dictator through the theater on a pole...
Risky Course. The arms that Nasser needs are tanks, jet planes, heavy artillery and a few naval craft. Czechoslovakia's famed Skoda armament works, now named for Lenin and controlled by the Soviet army, is well equipped to supply most of the arms. But to make effective use of Czech weapons, the Egyptian army will be obliged to set up a maintenance supply line running back to Prague, and, therefore, to Moscow. Thus Russia can secure a linn and influential hold on an area hitherto dominated by the West...