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...Hungary, the country's Communist boss, Matyas Rakosi, last week crowed that the Government had been seized "before the U.S. could rub its eyes." Another Communist leader, Zoltan Vas, Hungary's economic dictator, said: "I cannot deny that we have a large number of Hungarian Nazis in our party. But I would rather have them than businessmen or capitalists." Behind closed doors and drawn blinds, Budapesters heard foreign broadcasts telling of President Truman's protest (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that the Soviet maneuver in Hungary was "an outrage...
Armed with the simplest of plots and three extremely capable actors, Zoltan Korda has transformed Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" into a first-rate motion picture. While the sparsely-worded, continually charged atmosphere of the original story has been preserved, the script-writers have only had to distort the plot a little to squeeze ninety minutes of movie out of thirty pages of tightly-written dialogue. The only place they slipped up was at the end, where long, out-of character explanations take the edge off Hemingway's subtlety...
...Macomber is a brilliantly good job-the best yet-of bringing Hemingway to the screen. None of the three principal players could possibly be improved on; the African landscapes and hunting scenes (which were made in Africa and Mexico) are as believable as a neighbor's backyard. Director Zoltan Korda (Sahara) has already made two films in Africa, which is a help in this particular picture; still more important, he knows people, and style, and atmosphere, and how to make them vivid on a screen. There is hardly a point that Hemingway made in this savage, complex communique about...
...visiting European composers conducted their own music. Rumania's Georges Enesco, now 65 and also bent with arthritis, led the Chicago Women's Symphony through his First Symphony and Rumanian Rhapsody No. 1, then played the violin in Brahms's Concerto in D Major. Shy, slight Zoltan Kodaly (rhymes with no dye), 64, Hungary's top composer since the death of Bela Bartok, conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in his bustling, folk-tunish Peacock Variations. Enesco is now an honorary Rumanian deputy; Kodaly an honorary member of Hungary's Parliament...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Kodaly's Peacock Variations. Conductors: Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy...