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...camera's eye pans over the ravages of a Lost Weekend in Eliot House, as seven bleary-eyed dissipates scratch their navels, belch, and squint unbelievingly as an elegant figure, clutching a Neville Chamberlain umbrella, hoists himself through an upper-story window into their midst. And so begins "Three Giant Steps," a 21-minute silent comic film which opens tomorrow night in the Eliot House dining hall...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. A brilliant newcomer, Albert Finney, in a fine British film: a loud, hilarious belch of protest from Britain's working class...
...grass roots of British literature breaks out with brawling and exhilarant abandon on the screen. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his rumbustiously original first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is easily the best British movie since Room at the Top-a loud, hilarious, indignant, contented, malodorous belch of prosperous protest from the British working class. What's more, in Albert Finney (TIME, Feb. 24), the picture introduces a fiery young (24) larrikin Olivier of singular charm and histrionic talent-at the moment the most brilliant actor of his age in the English-speaking world...
...experimented with everything from impressionism to symbolism, but he could not abide artists who fastened themselves to one school and then repeated themselves until death. "All rules, all canons of art belch death," he said, and even the famous art circle he helped found in Brussels-Les XX, the most avant-garde bunch of its day-was sometimes too shattered by his paintings to exhibit them. As for the critics, they were perpetually outraged. "Mere daubings!" complained the Gazette. "Come, come," cried Le Patriot, "it's garbage...
...know who reviewed Disney's Polly anna [May 9], but the poor dear must have an awfully acid stomach, else how could he belch so? He would certainly have been revolted by my daughter's prayer, "God bless Walt Disney, he loves little children so and makes such beautiful things for them." I understand these are the sentiments of children around the world. I for one wish to thank Mr. Disney...