Word: cinema
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instance, the British endured a spate of low-grade idiots in the ranks during the Revolution and the War of 1812. We have it on cinema graphic authority that American spays had only to assume a bogus West End accent to gain admission to the most secret of English planning sessions...
...note, rather than poetry itself, that is absent from the play. Coriolanus is more Roman and less human, more heroic and less tragic than Julius Caesar or Antony and Cleopatra. Yet that is to describe rather than disparage it. Even with faults of production, this Coriolanus, as staged by Cinema Producer John (Julius Caesar) Houseman, makes a procession of graphic scenes. Its greatest weaknesses stem from miscasting. As Coriolanus, Hollywood's Robert Ryan is never large-statured or deep-fissured enough; he suggests prep school and Wall Street rather than gens and war. And though a good actress, Mildred...
...Place has no church, no chapel, no cinema, no football field. About all it does have are three streets of red brick houses, 259 inhabitants who mostly work in the local Beamish Mary coalpit, and a hearty dislike for Durham County authorities. For No Place learned last week that Durham's planners had condemned it to slow extinction...
That curious anomaly, the low budget movie, has added a hero to its ranks. Starring a little boy whose previous contact with the cinema was the second row of the neighborhood theatre, The Little Fugitive could easily have been nothing more than an elaborate home movie. But a trio of writer-directors have parlayed some crisp ideas with a flimsy script and come up with a very entertaining film...
Born. To Errol Flynn, 44, veteran cinema swashbuckler (The Master of Ballantrae), and his third wife, PatriceWymore Flynn, 27: their first child (his fourth), a daughter; in Rome. Name: Amelia Roma. Weight...