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Although he rarely bothers with public entertainment, President Eisenhower spent one air-conditioned afternoon last week watching a show, This Is Cinerama. As President, he has attended no plays, only one concert (the National Symphony in 1953) and one opera (the Metropolitan's road-company La Bohème last April). But he wanted to see the curved-screen Cinerama process. Since it could not be shown at the White House, the President and most of his staff went to a private showing at Washington's Warner Theater. Dutifully, a Secret Service agent-tall at that...
...Cinerama Holiday (Independent...
...This Is Cinerama (Independent...
...Cinerama Holiday (Stanley Warner Cinerama Corp.), the second production in Cinerama, lacks the technical surprise of the first, and offers little to take its place. In This Is Cinerama, which grossed $20 million in only 14 theaters during the past 28 months, the giant curved screen caught the spectator in an emotional pincers movement and empathically lobstered him out of his seat; but in essence it was no more than a wraparound newsreel. Cinerama Holiday, in turn, is just an oversized travelogue, but a fairly lively and sometimes picturesque one. though often it is blatant enough to explain all those...
There is also a tour of the U.S., featuring the sort of thing (Las Vegas, Top of the Mark, a New Orleans jam session, the Washington Monument) best left to home movies. On the whole, the trouble with Cinerama Holiday is that it employs such mighty means to such an insignificant end. As one customer remarked, "You get at least half the thrill of a roller-coaster ride for only ten times the price...