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...blue Italian lakes. Jennifer Jones's heroine appears to be more neurotic than the plot requires, and the final stages of her pregnancy, as the camera just keeps staring at her heavily padded midriff, seem intolerably long. All in all, the Selznick thumb has rubbed the bloom off Hemingway's mood, while the mere facts of the story are taken in deadly Ernest...
Backed by a comfortable mixture of sponsors (Sealtest, Hills Bros, and Breck), Jaffe mounted his show with opulent care, and it was played out with style, charm and directness by the Old Vic's delicate Bloom, Claire, and Charlton Heston. Adapter Joseph Schrank's dialogue, clean, spare, and always faithful to the original, gave Beauty the illusion that "all life was still at sunrise, a wonder and a wild desire," made possible such a strikingly gentle image as when Beauty returned to her dying Beast. She touched his hirsute head for the first time, and Beast said, with...
...realism," he went about engaging "people in talk about which girl in which household had given birth to a bastard." He sneered that novelettes like his own Red Flower were "divorced from reality" and "stories told to console children." When Comrade Mao propounded his slogan of "Let all flowers bloom." Liu seized the opportunity to publish a new book, Grass at Hsiyuan, which, according to the shocked China Youth Daily, "turned Communists into monsters" and described many old party members as "war lords, vicious hoodlums, sex fiends, idiots, whores." Liu was sternly "advised" to behave himself, but he airily replied...
...flood of good, bad and mediocre disks, there are some surprising disappointments. Siobhan McKenna's reading of Molly Bloom's sensuous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses lacks both the virago drive and the Lilith languors of that Protean whore; Dame Peggy Ashcroft sounds too much the maidenly elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...