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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watch the Color. Designer du Pont* does not usually have to depend on a tenor to get him out of the tight squeeze he puts a soprano into. Resourcefulness is merely one of the qualities needed by the costume designer for Max Liebman's NBC-TV spectaculars. In addition, he must sometimes do the impossible. Last week's The Chocolate Soldier was Du Pont's 20th spectacular of the season. This time he had ten days, instead of the more usual five, to dress the entire company for the Oscar Straus operetta, starring Risë Stevens. That...
Personal Rule: Since his excommunication by the Kremlin in 1948, Tito has developed a home-style Communism, depend ent on secret police and collectivist methods, but with variations characteristic of personal dictatorships. He divorced his second wife in 1947, married Jovanka, a strappingly handsome Partisan half his age, who even in evening dress looks as if she had just taken off her Sam Browne belt. Tito now lives in a palace, drinks the finest wines, hunts boar and drives in a bulletproof...
Othello (Mercury; United Artists) has all over it the stamp of Orson Welles's brummagem genius. Is there a file of soldiers with spears or a brave display of banners? Depend on it, the camera will catch them sharply etched against...
Does Welles-playing Othello, of course-stride on screen to erupt a Shakespearean torrent? Depend on it, the camera will be angled upward from the floor so that Welles looms at least ten feet high while the other actors seem scarcely more than midgets...
Today, people listen more attentively when Lewis hammers away at his old conviction that both civilization and art depend on a far-seeing law and order. Mysticism, "unconscious'" expression, addled emotionalism are his .pet hates. He stands up for personal "consciousness" in an epoch in which civilization has half-drowned itself in mass emotion and the seas of the Freudian unconscious. As long ago as 1914 Wyndham Lewis was pouring curses upon Mother Nature and shaggy beards, arguing that master gardeners and stern hairdressers are the truest symbols of civilization...