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Director Jules (The Naked City) Dassin's staging and Franz Waxman's overwrought musical score try to outdo each other in stridency. Aging (seventyish) Wrestler Zbyszko is natural and dignified in his acting debut, and Actor Widmark turns the neat trick of working up some sympathy for an unsavory character...
Strange Bedfellows (by Florence Ryerson & Colin Clements; produced by Philip A. Waxman) could be called a period suffrage play-or, just as accurately, a sex play, period. It is a mechanically contrived, noisily operated, shamelessly maneuvered piece that achieves all the effect of a bedroom farce without offering even a glimpse...
Bach: Concerto In D Minor for Two Violins (Jascha Heifetz with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Franz Waxman conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Both violin parts are played by Heifetz, who recorded each part separately and then matched them. Stunting with Bach is asking for trouble, but Heifetz carries it off pretty well. Recording: excellent...
Sadie Thompson (adapted from John Colton's and Clemence Randolph's Rain by Howard Dietz and Rouben Mamoulian; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke and Mr. Dietz; produced by A. P. Waxman) is more frost than Rain. Behind the famous play of the missionary who brought a scarlet woman to God only to be himself ensnared by the Devil there was a steady theatrical drive. In Sadie Thompson that drive is halted by every song, every dance, every stage procession...
...STANLEY WAXMAN is going great guns with his Company Charlie baseball league and some real stars have been found. . . . DONALD KOSKOFF gets posies for the longest hit so far . . . and JOHN BERRINGTON the left-handed marlin spike for this pitching a no-hitter...