Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What was the truth of it? Manhattan's hyperthyroid leftist PM put out a screaming Page One headline about GEN. MORGAN'S HITLERITE ATTACK ON EUROPE'S JEWS, but four days later its own Correspondent Victor Bernstein cabled from Germany "it must be emphasized that a great part of Morgan's statement . . . had firm foundation in truth." Sobersided New York Timesman Raymond Daniell corroborated him: "There is a regular underground organization;" it "maintains secret collective centers . . . gives Jewish refugees false papers and cash for the journey...
...rather a pity that such a pathetic exhibit provides a vehicle for Victor Moore. The drab mediocrity of his role which calls for eternal petulance and peevishness makes even Moore become tiring. In the romantic lead, despite his age and figure, is that gay Casanova, William Gaxton; the obvious farce of love scenes between Gaxton and Marilyn Maxwell is sheer hypocrisy. To complete the scene Miss Maxwell hasn't the voice to sustain her in a long role and although she is one of the loveliest women alive today her costumes and heavy makeup never betray the secret...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major (Rudolf Serkin and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 12 sides). A pretentious old warhorse in new harness. Serkin plays it louder but not better than Horowitz did with Father-in-Law Toscanini in Victor's 1941 recording. Performance: fair...
Schubert: Songs from Winterreise (Lotte Lehmann; Columbia, 6 sides). A great soprano concludes for Columbia a haunting series of songs about rejected love, which she began for Victor in 1940. Performance: excellent...
James Melton: Operatic Arias (Victor, 6 sides). The Metropolitan Opera tenor comes off better with two arias from Wagner, which he does not sing at the Met, than with two Mozart and two Massenet arias, which he does. Performance: good...