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Chromatic Wonderland. Though Schoenberg, along with his fellow Southern Californian, Igor Stravinsky, is one of the great musical innovators of modern times, few listeners are ready yet to say that they really like Schoenberg's ear-hurting music-and certainly no one is whistling any of his tunes. Forty years ago, after he had written his popular, Wagnerish Transfigured Night (which Antony Tudor used successfully for his ballet Pillar of Fire), Schoenberg had put conventional, barbershop-type harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value...
...Department of Agriculture had grown hoarse trying to explain the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of potatoes. It had burned potatoes, given them away for school lunches, let them rot, virtually given them away for making alcohol and flour-all at enormous cost to taxpayers and consumers. But as long as the Government supported the price of potatoes ($2.70 a hundredweight to Maine growers) farmers kept on raising more high-priced potatoes than consumers could afford...
There are, for instance, 3,150 books on various aspects of European, Asiatic and African history, 900 volumes on labor, 2,900 on economics, 450 on medicine, some children's books (Mother Goose, Alice In Wonderland, etc.), and 14 cook books of English, French, German, Chinese and Armenian recipes. They are useful, among other things, for satisfying our editors' curiosity about such matters as these (taken from a recent week's morgue queries...
...Price. The Department of Agriculture is already tangled up in the Alice-in-Wonderland economics of the support program in another farm product: after spending $40 million to support potato prices last year, the department asked farmers not to increase their potato acreage this year. But farmers increased production with better fertilizers, insecticides, irrigation. They felt sure the high support prices would go even higher. By last week the Government had already paid out $17 million for surplus potatoes-and the bulk of the crop is yet to come...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS), with a forum on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland beginning an eleven-week series on children's classics. Guest: Clifton Fadiman...