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Rees's crime was shocking-he was convicted in Maryland of murdering a mother and her five-year-old daughter (in Virginia he is charged with killing the same family's father and a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter). WBAL induced the jurors to enact The Verdict Is Ours after receiving the counsel of its legal advisers, who assured the station that no permission was necessary from Judge Thomsen or anyone else. "If we had felt that it might influence the sentencing, we wouldn't have done it," said Promotion Director Henry F. Hines...
...flair, swivel-hipped sex, lurid color and fundamental rhythms. King Kong has clapped a rough hand on English shoulders to lead its new audience through the shebeens (speakeasies) and back alleys around black Johannesburg. Great gum-booted miners dance with precision, township spivs glitter with menace as they re-enact a primeval war dance; shebeen Delilahs strut their stuff in the sinuous dance of the patha patha (touch, touch). Racy, swinging rhythms interweave tribal chants, European liturgical music and 1925 Dixieland stomps. Such certified-hit solos as The Earth Turns Over alternate with pennywhistle blues and a road gang...
...Pitch: Adventure. Sometimes the Campaigners enact David and Goliath, with Biblical costumes and hurtling stone; sometimes a red Indian wriggles across the sand to abduct the settler's daughter, leading up to the punch line: "Jesus always pays our ransom." The first step before each production is snaring the children. The pitch is announced as Adventure Time, and what is in effect a Sunday-school session is tricked out with puppets, magicians, quick-sketch artists and ventriloquists. The moppets' roars of approval bring the adults and teen-agers swarming around in a crowd that averages 500. After about...
EXODUS. Director Otto Preminger and Scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo have reduced a fatty mess of prose by Leon Uris to a lean, keen saga that keeps the audience on seat's edge as ten name players and 45,000 extras pseudohistorically re-enact the founding of Israel...
European opera houses, hoping to re-enact the Continental success stories of George London, Leontyne Price, Gloria Davy, et al. Although a great many of the new U.S. expatriates would prefer to sing at home, there is no room for them in the three major repertory opera theaters (the Metropolitan. Chicago and San Francisco operas). West Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, on the other hand, have about 60 thoroughly professional opera companies, most of them small houses that the musical tourist rarely hears of: Flensburg, Krefeld, Oldenburg. Hof, Saarbrucken, Augsburg. Kassel, Koblenz, Oberhausen, Bielefeld. There are some...