Word: blanco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shewing-Up of Blanch Posnet is a languid Western yarn, a genre in which the writer proves himself very ill at ease. Shaw is no cowboy. Neither is his hero, it must be admitted: Blanco is a kicking cousin of Dick Dudgeon, a would-be Hotspur in Levis and a grizzly beard, whose poetic force is out of place amid long-jawed neighbors. Blanco's tale is simple. He steals a horse. After a few twists involving first a slut then the mother of a just-dead baby, he is set free. The whole situation seems rather tired...
...actors and directors, on the other hand, put some life into the old West. Micheal Medearis is splendid as Blanco, and used a strong voice and glowering eyes skillfully. Blanco' brother, a preaching, liquor-selling village elder, is played by John Baker with very appropriate pomposity and effectively over-eloquent gestures. A local strutting, drawling, over-eager youth buck is neatly created by Dick Cattani. Phyllis Ferguson is graceful and strong in the role of the town bed-warmer, while Mary Wild looks excellent as she broods sadly through the role of the grieving mother. The director, Beverly Bourns, molds...
...second work of the evening, Man of Destiny, has one bright aspect, but joins Blanco as a rather weak play. It concerns Napoleon, a man whom Shaw shows as a bad little boy who stamps his foot, spits, and glowers when he can't have his lollypops. In this case the lollypops are dispatches, which the general must procure from a lovely, wide-eyed female spy who is the only really bright thing in the play. She is arrogant and clever, scheming and talkative, and of course beats Napoleon. Paula Cronbach wanders into this femme fatale role with a beguiling...
...last week. To fill out the cast for the movie version of his novelette, The Old Man and the Sea, Nobelman Hemingway was angling, day after day, for a near-world-record black marlin (TIME, April 23) in one of that fish's favorite haunts, the famed Cabo Blanco deep-sea hunting ground. Ashore in the port of Talara, after a wearying day's cruise, "Papa" Hemingway not only looked like a stout version of his own Old Man; he also had a dejected air, as if sharks had robbed him of his prize marlin. Actually, his party...
...bigger group chose 15 because (except for unlucky 13) it was the closest thing to 14. Two splinters that regard themselves as friendly opponents of the 145 and the 155 took the numbers 1414 and 1515. Other Colorados chose 65 in honor of the revolution of 1865, and a Blanco faction picked 97 as a memorial gesture to the revolution...