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With visions of Caruso and Melba dancing in their heads, a small group of Harvard and Radcliffe students arrived at the Opera House one Sunday at noon to rehearse their parts as "supers" in the New York City Opera's Carmen. After bumbling past small groups of half-dressed ballet dancers, they came to the stage, where Mr. Williams, a nervous, dramatic little man, was sipping a scalding cup of coffee and puffing a cigarette. He needed a shave...
Athena (M-G-M). For Hollywood musicals, 1954 has been a good year. M-G-M led off with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Warner followed with A Star Is Born, and Fox with Carmen Jones. Now M-G-M has made a musical burlesque of some California cults. The idea is brutally chewed up in the execution, but enough remarkable bits and pieces land on the screen to make Athena well worth a look...
...Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe, and Pearl Bailey hoarsing around in the wide-screen wings (TIME...
Energy, in fact, is the essence of this picture; the audience is not merely stimulated, it is all but electrocuted. Even the huge CinemaScope screen seems hardly big enough to carry the mass scenes. And yet, through the pelt of colors and the whirl of action, Carmen herself holds the eye-like a match burning steadily in a tornado. Actress Dandridge employs to perfection the method of the coquette: by never giving more than she has to, she hints that she has more than she has given-and sometimes even more than she really has to give...
...Carmen's singing, fully equal to the other sides of her performance, cannot be credited to Singer Dandridge. Her voice was found to be too light, and Marilynn Home's was skillfully dubbed in. LeVern Hutcherson does the singing for Actor Belafonte, and does it handsomely. Belafonte seems a rather Sunday-go-to-meetin' type to attract a Carmen, but he makes the big scenes convincing. Pearl Bailey, through the second half of the film, lolls around superbly under feather boas, dragging her weight in rhinestones and "livin' off de fatheads of de land...