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...Carousel still turns about colorfully on a big, big screen. Although not as good as the show, the movie contains much of the original flavor, not to mention new choreography and the beautiful scenery of Boothbay Harbor. Playing at the Keith Memorial...
...Carousel (20th Century-Fox). In the years between the wars, European audiences licked their lips over Liliom, the play by Ferenc Molnar. What they liked about its flavor was the salt. U.S. theater goers did the same over Carousel, the musical that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein made from the play in 1945, but what they liked about its flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything...
Elsewhere around are Diabolique, Carousel, Picnic, The Rose Tattoo, The Court Jester and Libby's Sliced Strawberries...
...Paramount and Fenway. Picnic is unpleasing because it is dull and Mid-western, though Susie Strasburg is infinitely Central Park West at Loew's State and Orepheum. Diabolique is still the biggest secret since John Thomson spent the weekend at the White House. At the Beacon Hill. Carousel has russet-thatched Gordon MacRae, which is more than anyone could ask, at Keith's Memorial. The Rose Tatoo is all AnnaMagnani's at the Met, which says ". . . Every week is a record. The crowds! The cheers! The acclaim!" The modesty...
Although cinemascope is more hinderance than help and the transfer from stage to screen is still awkward, Carousel remains a touching and beautiful story...