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PRETTY POISON is a little comedy of murders that is full of some nice surprises: notably excellent performances by Tony Perkins and Tuesday Weld, and some telling satire on the current climate of violence by Director Noel Black, 31, and Co-Producer Marshall Backlar...
...whose proposals are almost always followed by the Faculty, has also recommended that a special Faculty committee be established to coordinate the negotiations of ROTC contracts, and report back to the Faculty before the end of the current academic year...
...current production, Gilbert's burlesque of late 19th-century melodrama is presented all but dead-pan by actors nearly as immobile as the lectern-bound participants in a dramatic reading. Having abandoned all but the most incidental attempts to give character to his leads or to fortify the humor of the text with sight gags, Paul G. Cooper reduces himself from a director to a variety of quartermaster. His sole purpose and accomplishment is to deliver the proper number of actors to any part of the stage which will accommodate them, in time for the musical numbers. No 18th-century...
MICHEL DE GHELDERODE'S Pantaleize dramatizes the dehumanizing and destructive aspects of a violent political revolution. The play, which first appeared in 1929, was molded by the current chaotic European political scene. Ministerial crises wracked de Ghelderode's France on an average of every three months, and militant demonstrators armed with black flags and utopian rhetoric called for the decapitation of all cabinet ministers and army officers. In the 1920's officials did not answer demonstrators with the granting of civilian review boards but with machine gun fire and wholesale executions. The playwright could not conceive of the revolutionaries...
...stress first films, partly because no one ever takes as many chances as they do in their first film, but mostly because the movies that represent the current professional product in America take no chances at all. Kevin Brownlow's The Parade's Gone By... recalls that Ramon Novarro and Frank Currier doing the raft scene in Ben-Hur (1926) exposed themselves for three days to freezing winds and icy water at four hour stretches, narrowly avoiding pneumonia. But, when Wyler remade Ben-Hur in 1959 when technical proficiency could have compensated for weather variables, the scene was poorly synthesized...