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...Sylvia Berke, who was employed at Fort Monmouth in 1943. denied that she was a member of the Communist Party then. With her lawyer beside her, a study in distress, Mrs. Berke said that she was not a Communist last Sept. 15, but refused to say if she had been one Sept. 13. McCarthy told her that if she is fired from her position as a school clerk in The Bronx, she "might apply for a job over at Harvard-there seems to be a privileged sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment cases...
Space Patrol. In Detroit, suing for divorce, Mrs. Sylvia Skolski charged that her husband Thomas had become "obsessed with the idea that space ships will land on earth. He reads pulp magazines and comic books for hours, excluding me from his company...
...more than two weeks, the company, on its third visit to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 21), staged some familiar oldtimers, but its new numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...
...Sylvia was indeed a hit. For one thing, it moved to a perfectly lyrical score by the father of modern ballet music, Léo Delibes (1836-91). Delibes, a musical whiz-kid who was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when he was twelve, became a church organist in his teens, wrote his first stage piece (Two Cents Worth of Coal) at 19. He was a pupil of famed Adolphe (Giselle) Adam, wrote with a symphonic fluidity that made much of the ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about...
...Sylvia Marlowe (New Editions). A sampling of four living composers played by Harpsichordist Marlowe and her Harpsichord Quartet. The program: Alan Hovhaness' Quartet, a kind of musical still life that is less aggressively oriental than this composer's usual efforts; John Lessard's Toccata, a work of driving insistence that makes full use of the harpsichord's jangling, percussive qualities; Virgil Thomson's Sonata No. 4, a neatly drawn portrait in sound (of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim) composed in an enigmatically old-fashioned style * and Vittorio Rieti's Sonata all' Antica...