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...week Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in striking closeup, breathed her special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with "a man in a beautiful...
Across the Pond. The peacock in its prime is shown by Author Bedford with the brilliance of an artist who can paint both a huge panorama and an Audubon closeup. Julius von Felden, feckless son of an ancient baronial house of Baden, has come to Berlin to marry Melanie. daughter of the Jewish House of Merz-a plutocratic, rock-solid family that lives in a welter of steam heat, massive drapes, and meals so continuous and gigantic that every room contains a deftly hidden mousetrap...
...best is his study of two conspirators* (see cut). By showing a dramatic closeup of the two informers, he has neatly rendered the feeling of furtiveness and secretiveness in espionage...
...happen more often? For roughly $200,000, the price of four half-hour variety shows, Impresario Sol Hurok put some of music's brightest stars into dazzling constellation. The camera let the viewer hover over the fingers of Guitarist Andres Segovia and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, linger in closeup on the intense face of Marian Anderson, share the lilt of Verdi's La Traviata with Victoria de los Angeles, stand amid the powerful climax of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, superbly acted and sung by Bulgaria's Boris Christoff. Festival showed, far more eloquently than in its first...
...short, the only important difference between the play and the picture is its cast. Paul Ford, as the colonel, is the only carryover, and in closeup he seems even more a master of the cruder kinds of deadpantomime. Glenn Ford is amiable as young Captain Fisby; Machiko Kyo, one of the most gifted of Japanese cinemac tresses, is pleasantly giggly in a part that scarcely taxes her abilities. As Sakini, Marlon Brando seems to proclaim with every gesture that his talent is too big for his coolie britches...