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...packed with jokes, plays on words; it contains nonsensical diagrams, ridiculous footnotes, obscure allusions. Sometimes it seems to be retelling, in a chattering, stammering, incoherent way, the legends of Tristan and Isolde, of Wellington and Napoleon, Cain and Abel. Sometimes it seems to be a description, written with torrential eloquence, of the flow of a river...
...Tristan und Isolde (Fri. 11:45 p. m. NBC-Blue). Act III of Richard Wagner's opera of love and death from the Chicago City Opera with Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad in the title roles...
Bruno Walter (Mon. 3:40 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at Lake Lucerne (see above) in Wagner's Bacchanale from Tannhduser, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde...
Last December one member of the Goncourt Academy died, and the remaining nine, most of them well above 70, disagreed about his successor. Candidates included Humorist Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing...
...Wedding March from "Le Coq d'Or"Rimsky-Korsakov *Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini *Minuet from "L'Arlesienne" Bizet *Soviet Iron Works Mossolov *Prelude and Love Death from "Tristan and Isolde" Wagner *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinieu-Heifetz "Artist's Life," Waltzes Strauss *Sixth Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Granados *March, "On the Mall" Goldman *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...