Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical Playboy, retitled The Heart's a Wonder, is pure Synge: the rollicking story of Christy Mahon, the peasant boy who became a hero by telling a tale of parricide. The scene is still Michael James Flaherty's peat-smoked shebeen (pub), and the rich poetic dialogue is still, as Synge said a good play must be, "as fully flavored as a nut or apple." For music the O'Farrell sisters borrowed Irish ballads. As for the lyrics, they did a remarkable job of bending Synge's own lifelike speech into rhyme...
...take a boy from the Midwest, from Ponca City, Okla., for instance. Teach him to speak Italian, then put him in an apartment that is 20 years older than his own country's government. Put this apartment in the center of Rome about a block from where Julius Caesar was killed, where from his studio window he can see the church in which the first act of Tosca takes place. Let him become close friends with several Italian families. Let him visit the major museums and cities of Europe, and live the last three months in Venice...
...Associated Press (which used the Democrat's shot) and the U.P.I, both moved the picture without a hint that it was staged. Unwarned, the New York Sunday News printed U.P.I.'s picture with a caption saluting the "eloquent look in the eyes" of the woman and boy. The moderate Arkansas Gazette later disclosed that the picture was staged, but by then the voting was over, and the segregationists had won (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Premier May (Continental) is an intricate little French exercise as formally organized as a rondo, and bearing much the same sort of charm. In the course of a day, a baby is born, a pretty girl gets engaged, a boy learns the facts of life and, in his own way, so does his father. Writer-Director Luis Saslavsky's soft-voiced theme is that no one of these things could have happened unless all the others...
...begins with the whole family together. But the girl takes off for a day of carnival fun, and Papa is instructed to take the boy to a match de football. Reason for the outing is that Mama feels her first labor pains coming on, and since the boy still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...