Word: crescendoed
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Good stagy stuff, and more to come. When the girl finally gets a tryout for a walk-on as a French peasant ("He's playing cards in the bar"), she flunks it spectacularly by scuffing onstage like a marked-down Magnani and declaring in a studied crescendo: "He is at the estaminet playing [pause] BEZIQUE!" And when a young playwright takes her to an opening-night party, she gets drunk, embarrasses him and bores everybody else by climbing on the nearest eminence to recite "0 Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" But suddenly nobody is bored. She is reading...
...classics surprisingly well, had audience and orchestra falling from their chairs by: 1) kissing two girl harpists and a bull fiddler; 2) parodying common conductorial techniques, i.e., "the coffee grinder" and "the meat chopper"; 3) arguing with his oboist over an A; 4) falling into the cellos during a crescendo. Said Kaye: "It's the greatest feeling of neurotic power in the world...
...from Dreyfus to Emile Zola, Anatole France, Georges Clemenceau, Jean Jaurés, Maitre Labori and the other famous men who turned the Dreyfus Affair from a case into a cause. If only the camera had shifted with the interest, the picture might have built up an impressive concluding crescendo. Unfortunately, what would interest the moviegoer does not seem to interest the moviemaker-or perhaps the size of the subject frightened him. In any case. Director Ferrer keeps his camera pointed firmly at Actor Ferrer...
...country's boldest and best-known crusading student weekly, Po Prostu (Plain Speaking). Po Prostu had zealously supported Gomulka in his stand against Nikita Khrushchev and the rest of Poland's Soviet overlords last year, but since then had lent its own voice to the rising crescendo of intellectual discontent with the slow pace of Gomulka's democratization...
...Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene Loring-whose dances gave last week's Crescendo, a big CBS variety show, some of its infrequent high moments. ¶ Standard Oil's (NJ.) $600,000 75th Anniversary Show, to be staged in color over NBC (9 to 10:30 p.m., E.D.T.) by Theaterman Cyril Ritchard, stars Tyrone Power, Jimmy Durante, Bert Lahr, Donald O'Connor, Jane...