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...Gondoliers-quickly becomes as complicated as most of Gilbert's plots, with two stalwart boatmen marrying three maids, one of the gondoliers to be a king who is legally married to a duchesses' daughter who loves a drumboy, and so on. Elizabeth Kalkhurst, one of the maids, catches the lighthearted spirit of the operetta perfectly. She sings as usual, with a full, beautiful voice, but this is the first time I have seen her completely relax in her acting--and the result is most charming. Her sister is played by Linda Latter, whose singing is clear without being shrill...
...running duel between an American mogul and a canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
Things Like Culture. The Russians' visit was big news in English newspapers, which dubbed them The Volga Boatmen and gave them more space last week than was allotted to pronouncements of the Foreign Ministry. Interpreter Evgeniy Gippenreuter, a bushy-haired Muscovite, did most of the talking for the delegation and soon tired of one persistent line of questioning. "Food!" he barked at an inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet...
More interesting were the works of Russia's pre-revolutionary artists. Not so concerned with depicting Utopia, they showed pathetic trains of cold-numbed peasants crossing the steppes on sleighs, a stooped little stoker with immense gnarled hands, weary Volga boatmen, a slushy country road stretching across endless plains...
Next morning a crowd of some 25,000 began snaking along in cars on U.S. Highway 50, which winds with the Arkansas' west bank. Across the river, on the twisting tracks of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad, photographers climbed aboard handcars. At one-minute intervals the boatmen began shoving off from Big Bend, five miles north of Salida, into the chilly (52° F.) torrent. The first big test, Bear Creek Rapids, which a week earlier dashed a boatman to death, lived up to its bad reputation by capsizing the first starter. Soon Theo Bock lost his lead...