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...Like Money (Dimitri de Grunwald; 20th Century-Fox) is the fourth movie version of Marcel Pagnol's supremely cynical play Topaze. John Barrymore once did the leading role in a Hollywood version, and Fernandel has done it in French...
...Competitions are the only way to give impetus to a career-until someone thinks of a better way," said Pianist Agustin Anievas last week. He spoke with authority: Anievas had just won the first annual Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition-a brand-new contest designed to uncover talented new pianists both from the U.S. and abroad...
...Dimitri Villard as Neoptolemus brought little insight and meager stage presence to a demanding part. Neoptolemus, an honest, forthright youth, is forced by Odysseus into a double reversal of character. In order to fool. Philoctetes, he must pretend to be naive, that is, he must "play" himself. Villard's vapid interpretation excluded all this complexity. Thus, when the time came for him to break down and tell all to Philoctetes, he had not prepared the audience with any previous dramatic tension. His moment fizzled...
...Millionairess (Dimitri de Grunwald; 20th Century-Fox) is made from an old show-business recipe for success: when the joke is bad, make the worst of it. The joke, written in this case by George Bernard Shaw, was a 1936 profiteer-jerker that parodied the plight of those who have money and think it will buy anything. In this revival, Director Anthony Asquith makes a parody of the parody, and where the play becomes too talky, he has the good sense to decree that the Shaw must not go on. He also makes the most of Sophia Loren, who consistently...
...Died. Dimitri Mitropoulos, 64, virtuoso conductor and pianist who followed a musical calling with mystical fervor; of a heart attack; in La Scala Opera House, Milan. Athens-born of ecclesiastical lineage, Greek Orthodox Mitropoulos gave himself to music with the dedication of a monk (which he once intended to be), lived frugally, gave away his money to students as his hero St. Francis of Assisi did, became an apostle of modern composers. On the podium he danced, shook his fringed pate, conducting without a score from an awesome memory. Off the podium he read philosophy, the Greek dramatists...