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King Solomon's Mines. Darkest Africa in brightest Technicolor reduces the hokum of H. Rider Haggard's plot to a minor hardship on moviegoers; with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger (TIME...
...warmed up on the seldom-heard Recitative and Aria of Messagera from Monteverdi's Orfeo. She soared sweetly in Scarlatti's Le Violette, then navigated the vocal rapids of an aria from Handel's Joshua with sureness and poise. In a full, flowing voice, at its darkest the color of a ripe Spanish olive, she sang easily (if a trifle affectedly) through a group of German lieder and on to the songs of her native Spain. In her last encore, she gracefully accompanied herself on the guitar...
...thought it would be political suicide to vote against anti-Communist legislation. So strong was this feeling that Hubert Humphrey of Indiana voted for the McCarran bill 24 hours after he said on the Senate floor that "the day S. 4037 passes will prove to be one of the darkest pages in American History...
After a year's safari into darkest Hollywood, Anthropologist Hortense Powdermaker has emerged with a published account of her findings, Hollywood, The Dream Factory (Little, Brown; $3.50). On the basis of previous research among backward Melanesian natives, Dr. Powdermaker concluded that the denizens of Hollywood are even more primitive, more superstitious, more beset by anxieties than Stone Age tribesmen...
...transmitted to Britain in recent years a passion for the 100%-American chocolate milk shake and double frosted. Last October, alarmed at this drift toward such dairy delights, Satirist Maurice Lane Norcott attempted to warn readers of the London Daily Mail against the perils involved. Plumbing the darkest depths of his imagination, he envisioned a Hollywood soft drink fountain in the heart of London and called it "Mother Moo-moo's Milk...