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The effect of this plan on Dolwyn's inhabitants furnishes most of the drama of the movie. The combination of rolling, verdant landscapes and simple country people invokes those hazy, romantic adjectives, "delightful" and "charming." "The Woman of Dolwyn" is genuinely moving as well, although the film is occasionally marred...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/2/1950 | See Source »

"English Music of the Late 18th Century" includes the works of William Boyce, Thomas Arne, John Stanley, and Thomas Curtis. These pieces are, for the most part, light and charming, and they escape the grumpy profundity of some of the more often heard 19th century music. William Perry's enthusiastic...

Author: By Jerome Goodman, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

The story of Turandot comes from the same shop as Prokofiev's delightful The Love for Three Oranges, but it is a far less juicy piece of fruit. Puccini's librettists, like Prokofiev, took their story from an 18th Century "fable," i.e., play, of Count Carlo Gozzi, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Puccini's Last | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

The Advocate, in reducing its price to 25 cents, has economized on its proof-reading. There are no less than seven errors, including a delightful variant spelling: "sneakres."

Author: By John R. W. smail, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 4/15/1950 | See Source »

Except for a wretched vocal group called "The Upstarts," the cast is uniformly excellent. Especially worth mention is a young dancer named Dorothy Jarnae, who has an amazingly mobile body and face. Her performance of her own choreography, is a high point in the show. Jack Albertson is another talented...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 4/13/1950 | See Source »

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