Word: carmen
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...will be understandably inclined to refuse the opportunity to spend a couple of hours tonight in a quonsett hut in England, among khakied men, listening to khakied talk. You don't want that "Carmen" is nicer. But such an opportunity is being offered nightly here at the Wilbur Theater, and the purpose of this review is to tell you not to miss...
...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...
...Loves of Carmen. It isn't art and it isn't Bizet, but it is Rita Hayworth in Technicolor (TIME, Sept...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
...teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery red makeup that would look fine on a Connecticut barn. On Technicolored actors it looks terrible...