Word: caroled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Models for this feature include: Dory Briggs, Carol E. Jacobs, Jean Harper, Grace Hill, Gail Finkel, Edward Abramson, Olivar Woodburn, Gregory Stone, Stephen Wald, Edward R. Chalfin, John Grady, William Prescott and George Hatch. Picture credits: Six foot scarf--Jeffrey A. Barach; Silhouette--Stephen F. Ells...
Debussy: Blessed Damozel (Victoria de los Angeles. Carol Smith; Radcliffe Choral Society; Boston Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor). A piece that Debussy submitted, at 24. as part of his duties as a winner of the Prix de Rome. (Officials hesitated to accept it because of its "systematic" vagueness.) It is less vaporous than his more mature works, but its earthy enthusiasm is winning, especially in this crystalline performance...
...entry in this year's Venice Film Festival, is a beautifully designed Christmas card set to the music of the old English carol. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Placed in the sparkling snow of a Victorian London, the film recounts the wooing of Wendy Toye during the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany. Waggish Suitor David O'Brien arrives each morning with a pyramiding progression of flora, fauna and assorted humans that, within a fortnight, have jampacked Wendy's neat home with speckled cows, choirboys, colored doves, milkmaids, kings and pear trees. A pleasant, 22-minute short...
...from Alice in Wonderland, which was completely captivating with the addition of modern dance. Susan Zucker's charming choreography for Beautiful Soup emphasized the wit of Lewis Carroll's text. Director Caroline Martin presented the entire Dance Group in Eixa Nit es Nit, a haunting setting of a Catalan carol by Joaquin Nin. The dancers moved in willowy, flexible patterns, and the Choral tone was excellent. It is unfortunate that the concert was little known in the Harvard community; future joint recitals deserve better publicity...
Vamp-laid in the era when moviemaking shifted from East Coast to West-turns Carol Channing from a lummoxy farm girl to a reigning screen vamp, while getting in her way or following in her wake are up-from-corsets movie producers snakehearted ingénues, oriental shenanigans and Biblical films. But what chiefly ails the story is that it never really evokes 1914, or early Hollywood, or actual vamps; there is no fondness to its memories or sharpness to its stings...