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As the film begins-with one of the biggest (and crassest) lapel-clutch introductions a film ever had-Bogart, in clerical black, is seen staggering on-camera across the wastes of up-country China, a backward look of terror on his face and a wicked-looking .45 in his hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 3, 1955 | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Biggest laugh-getter was Judgment of Paris* by British Choreographer Anthony Tudor, which turned Greek mythology's trio of goddesses into three aging Parisian filles of dubious joie, vying for the favor of a sleepy potential customer (Tudor). Famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who danced the part first in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fun at the Ballet | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Kinsey & Sanskrit. The first clear sign that the U.S. had again caught the recitation bug was the smash success of the First Drama Quartette (Agnes Moorehead, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Boyer) in Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, later superbly recorded by Columbia ($11.90). Then the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

When Ballet Theater first bounced on the scene 15 years ago, it called itself "a museum of the dance." The label was meant to indicate that all styles, old and new, would be on exhibit. Over the years, the lively museum gave U.S. ballet a new turn: it kicked new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lively Museum | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

¶ Agnes Deigh (her name a pun on Agnus Dei) plays godmother and literary agent to a lisping crew of homosexuals until she jumps out of a hotel window.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Counterfeiters | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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