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Shima's waka, reminiscent at times of Oscar Wilde's Ballad of Reading Gaol, were inspired by a book of poetry sent him in jail by the wife of his former schoolmaster. Poetry writing has long been considered an effective form of rehabilitation in Japanese prisons. There are utakai, or poetry clubs, in all of Japan's 73 penitentiaries, with an average membership of no each; the number of poetasters behind bars is estimated at more than 16,000. *Prison magazines are filled with their efforts, and several prison wardens are famed versifiers. Explains the director...
...PRIME OF Miss JEAN BRODIE, by Muriel Spark (187 pp.; Llppincott; $3.95). Knowledgeable readers of Muriel Spark's novels admire such crystalline structures of malice as Memento Mori and The Ballad oj Peckham Rye partly for the economy with which they are built. Avoiding bravura writing as she would a vulgar display of pound notes, this Scotswoman sits composedly among her characters, goading them by silence and an infrequent equivocal smile to disclose their sins. Rarely does the exposure require more than 200 pages, and at the end of a Muriel Spark novel, most readers find themselves wondering...
...older; enemies say she doesn't act a day older. But in twelve years and 26 films the little lady-she stands 5 ft. 1½ in., weighs 100 Ibs.-has developed, by sheer work and sheer nylons, into an effective hoofer and a get-by ballad-belter. And in recent films she has emerged as a competent utility comedienne, a half-fast Hutton, a pingpong Ball with lots of bounce...
...BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. The best Russian movie since World War II: Director Grigori Chukhrai's tender, sentimental, humorous, passionate, imaginative story of love without benefit of Lenin in a Russia without time for love...
...Summer to Remember. New wave in Soviet cinema? Probably not, but this is the fourth good Russian film (the other three: Ballad of a Soldier, Fate of a Man, The Gordeyev Family) to reach the U.S. this year. It is a fresh, warm, funny story of a little boy's life with father in Russia...