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...some Dickens, suddenly turns into a minor screwball sensation. As a dog, the cur at one stroke loses all his human rights-and properties. Without money, without clothes, without shelter, without food, he begins to live the dog's life he deserves. As he wanders the streets, dogs yap at him, boys kick at him, motorists use him for target practice. A bum sells him to a sausage factory...
Rota. Truk, Yap, Saipan, Koror, Ponape, Majuro . . . The Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas; they could be the names of seven Pekingese dogs and the families who own them. Actually these islands and archipelagoes (comprising 2,134 other islands and atolls) in the Western Pacific sun make up Micronesia-a tractable, tropical dreamland that the U.S. is not quite sure what to do with. They are the spoils of war, won from the Japanese at the cost of thousands of U.S. lives...
Last week it seemed likely that all this would change, although naturally not for the better. Next fall, to endear itself to its affiliated stations, ABC will widen its yap gap on night-time programs to 40 seconds. CBS and NBC, of course, will meet the competition...
...Dalmatians (Buena Vista) is one of the nicest things that have happened so far this year to dog's best friend: a full-length (80 minutes) animutted curtoon that should please just about everybody but cats and will probably make the youngsters yap-happy. It is the wittiest, most charming, least pretentious cartoon feature Walt Disney has ever made...
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Leon Fleisher, pianist; the Cleveland Orchestra, under George Szell; Epic). When he won Belgium's famed International Concours in 1952, recalls San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher, he was known as a garden-variety YAP (Young American Pianist). In time he became a DYAP (Distinguished Young American Pianist); now, at 32, he is a fully developed DAP (Distinguished American Pianist), as this superb reading of a popular war horse (22 available LP versions) demonstrates. Fleisher finds a Schumann that is virile, sinewy, full of sharply-profiled contrasts of tone and tempo...