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Last week President Harry Truman sent Under Secretary of State Edward Miller to San Jose, the cool, green capital of Costa Rica. There, amidst the yellow silk tapestries of the one-story' Foreign Office, Miller pinned on a beaming, weeping Ulate the U.S. white-&-gold Legion of Merit in the highest grade for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in office...
...fine, and the Genoa citizenry which moves naturally through its city adds to the film's authenticity. The acting is excellent: Jean Gabin is convincingly weary and revived as the Frenchman; Isa Miranda is appropriately tender and brave as the woman who revives him and who finds satisfaction amidst poverty; and Vera Talchi is very good as her canny 11-year-old daughter...
...opera's central character (Beret), a "fine sensitive woman" who cracks up from pioneering hardships, gets lost amidst homecomings, claim jumpings, a wedding, baptism and a final invasion of locusts. The result: Giants in the Earth totted up as more of a series of tableaux (or a bad western) than an opera...
...plot these two must work with is at best ordinary. It concerns a brother and sister team which goes to London for a show amidst the excitement of Princess Elizabeth's wedding. While there, Miss Powell inexplicably falls in love with Peter Lawford who plays a British nobleman. Lawford only proves anew that he just cannot act, even in his native surroundings. Meanwhile, the other half of the team, Fred Astaire, interrupts his dancing long enough to go romantic with Sarah Churchill, who is making her much-heralded debut in American movies. Keenan 'Wynn in the double role...
...present Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, formed in 1942 amidst many protest, has not completely broken with the "liquoring" tradition. The College dean supplied free beer after concerts in the 19th century, but now the orchestra digs into its own treasury. No member likes to admit that after last December's concert, "we were all so tired, we left a case begging...