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John Ross's production of Macbeth is more than a reading. He has incorporated too many of the elements of drama to call it that. In the process he has created a form of his own. What he has added by way of a spectacle is no mere backdrop; the resulting whole is a sort of dance, contrived of gestures and juxtapositions as well as words. It is totally absorbing...
...reverberated. Sixty salutes had already been fired; now came 30 more-one for every year of Churchill's life. Sixty Highland bagpipers from different Scottish regiments piped the coffin down to the wharf at the foot of Tower Hill where Beefeaters in full uniform stood guard. Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping of a bo'sun's whistle, the coffin went aboard the Havengore, a Royal Navy launch...
...animated musical documentary, directed with blazing skill and ingenuity by Britain's Joan Littlewood, Lovely War is constructed like a theatrical montage. Period songs, sketches, gauze-clad music-hall girls and blown-up film stills fill the stage while a lighted news ticker across the backdrop impersonally taps out the monstrous dance of death: ALLIES LOSE 850,000 MEN IN 1914. Mockingly ironic, magnetically fascinating, Lovely War defies a playgoer to settle back in his seat. Tender, frolicsome and tragic, it turns spilled blood into tears and evokes laughter in hell...
...owner of Four Star, along with David Niven. They are both in the series, which NBC describes as "a comedy-melodrama about a family of jet-set jewel thieves and con men who are masters of separating the pompous rich from their ill-gotten gains . . . played against a backdrop of Riviera beaches, palatial villas, beautiful women and green felt gaming tables...
Will Steven Armstrong has restricted himself to blacks, whites, and grays in his costumes--until the enthronement of Richard, where the eye is dazzled with blazing reds in front of a blood-red backdrop...