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...movie, like the Festival, is a potpourri, ranging from Louis Armstrong's Dixieland Blues to the esoteric West Coast sound of Chico Hamilton. Jimmy Guiffre does his best piece, "The Train and the River," aided by Bob Brookmeyer. Thelonious Monk crashes through "Blue Monk." Anita O'Day does two vocals in her most irresistible manner, and Dinah Washington offers "All of Me," which is a bit too much for anyone to take...
...answers the frequent charge that the bizarre (e.g., three-nosed) characters in his plays "come from nowhere" by saying that "they come from Everywhere." Through an interpreter he solemnly told his audience that the surrealists "nourished me," but that the three biggest influences on his work were actually Groucho, Chico and Harpo Marx. Answering written questions from the house, he picked up a cold potato that went "Do you think that the modern dramatic artist is essentially alienated?", thought it over and gave a perfect, two-syllable answer...
...years past, there have been several members of a family on the cover, e.g., three sons of George V of Great Britain (Aug. 8. 1927); four Marx brothers-Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo (Aug. 15, 1932); and three of Edsel Ford's sons. Benson, William and Henry II (May 18, 1953). There have been couples, including Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Oct. 26, 1931; Jan. 3, 1938), Ambassador to Russia and Mrs. Joseph Davies (March 15, 1937) and Stage Luminaries Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Nov. 8. 1937). But never before has TIME'S cover been...
Still, there are some good things about the show. Sammy Davis Jr., looking like an absurd Harlemization of Chico Marx, makes a wonderfully silly stinker out of Sportin' Life. The singing is generally good-particularly the comic bits by Pearl Bailey and the ballads by Adele Addison, who sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
Elmer Bernstein's music heightens the drama captured by the sensitive cameras of James Wong Howe, A.S.C. In addition, there are several jazz numbers by the Chico Hamilton quintet (plus guitar), a group whose modern arrangements lend a suitably syncopated rhythm. The screenplay, by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman (who wrote the book), is for the most part brilliant, capturing the lingo perfectly: "What am I? a bowl of fruit? a tangerine that peels itself?" Or: "Starting today, you could play marbles with his eyeballs." And the pace of director Alexander Mackendrick keeps up with that of the music...