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...cleanly staged scenes of overseas action, he tints it brightly with a sense of the ridiculous. In the French underground, bosomy Starlet Corinne Calvet, gotten up as an overblown copy of Rita Hayworth, makes a fancy leader of the Maquis. Back home, Evelyn Varden plays Willie's comically bland mother to perfection, and William Demarest, a graduate of Sturges comedies, lampoons the bellicose American Legionnaire father with merciless skill. Dan Dailey flings himself into the best role of his career with all his hoofer's timing and energy, makes befuddled Willie just as funny, human and enormously likable...
Marino Marini is a tall, bland Milanese with mild brown eyes and a sculptor's muscular hands. Two years ago his works were little known outside of Italy; now, at 49, he is internationally admired. The exhibition of his works which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week was sure to shock some people and deeply move oth ers. It showed that he had earned his belated fame the hard way, with sculptures that were often downright unpleasant...
Died. Representative Schuyler Otis Bland, 77, Virginia's white-haired perennial, one of the hardiest in the House (17 consecutive terms since 1918),*chairman of the House Committee on the Merchant Marine and Fisheries, longtime proponent of shipping subsidies; in Bethesda...
...walls hung eleven U.S. Presidents, from John Quincy Adams to Chester Alan Arthur, a squad of Civil War generals, a covey of society ladies and a coachload of kings, queens and courtiers. There was the bland map of Healy's greatest patron-King Louis-Philippe of France. There were Andrew Jackson's maned, hard head and the bristle-bearded", tormented and flinty face of General William Tecumseh Sherman. There were Franz Liszt, Henry W. Longfellow, Jenny Lind...
...balance last year's heavy movie diet of psychotics, disillusioned soldiers, mistreated Negroes and megalomaniac athletes, Hollywood is currently dishing up a series of bland drawing-room comedies. Mostly these harmless romps seem to have no more serious aim than to give tired moviegoers a chance to watch elegantly dressed people wasting time and money...