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According to one theory, mambo is an inevitable phase of cultural evolution, a resounding response to a major need Explains Darwin-minded Reporter Ed Wallace in the New York World-Telegram and Sun: "The rumba broke up the crowd of doleful listeners who had begun to accumulate like barnacles around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Darwin & the Mambo | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

For about half the film this comic technique works beautifully. As Mr. Potts blithely bungles into international intrigue completely oblivious of what he is doing, he becomes progressively more pitiful and more comical. George Cole, whose doleful, expressive face is perfect for the part, makes Potts almost Chaplinesque. The beginning...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lucas, | Title: Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow | 10/15/1953 | See Source »

With a voice that can be a shy soprano but is more often a belting baritone, Joyce Bryant seems to have trouble relaxing onstage. To her credit, she tries: after a sweltering bout with Porgy, she begins a blander number, e.g., After You've Gone or You Made Me...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Leave Them Down | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

As for English music critics, added Sir Thomas, they can be divided into three groups: "The first consists of three or four people who write about music in a scholarly, accurate, knowledgeable manner. After them conies a handful which write brightly and amusingly about music. They know little about it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Missionary to the English | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

Bloodhounds of Broadway has some fast Runyonesque patter and a couple of spry tunes. Mitzi Gaynor brings a pert personality and youthful sparkle to her singing, dancing and acting, while the dog stars, Mister and Blondie, a pair of bloodhounds cast in the title roles of Nip & Tuck, are a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 1, 1952 | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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