Word: enchantment
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...month run on Broadway. But somewhere between Broadway and Hollywood the broomstick broke down. Like the play, the picture is about a beautiful witch (Kim Novak) who decides to exchange cantrip and gramarye for love and marriage, and about the man (James Stewart) she sets out to enchant. The part is almost perfectly written for Actress Novak. The script quickly announces that as a witch she is not supposed to blush, cry, or indeed have very much expression at all. But when the heroine suddenly changes into a woman in love, Kim's expression changes so little that...
Believable Make-Believe. The week's outstanding show, and the one that was certain to offend no one of any age, sex, race or religion, was NBC's Peter Pan. Mary Martin came soaring out of a canvas sky to enchant some 55 million viewers-10 million fewer than watched last year's Peter Pan, but still far and away the largest audience for any TV event of the current season. This second look at Barrie's fable confirmed the remembered excellence of Jerome Robbins' production and the believable make-believe of Mary Martin...
Indigestible Feast. Packed into twelve days is a program covering some 90 basic topics, more than 400 scientific papers. It is one of those indigestible feasts that only scientists can enjoy. Few of their technical papers will enchant the lay public; even among the scientists they will separate the men from the boys. Some of the titles alone, e.g., "Remarks About the Milne Problem with Cylindrical Symmetry," are brain strainers. The contents bristle with symbols, charts and jawbreaking terminology, the hard stuff of which the Philosophers' Stone is made...
Ravel: Schéhérazade (Suzanne banco, soprano; Suisse-Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). Three lovely songs with luxuriant orchestral accompaniment: Asie is an extended sigh for the exotic pleasures of the Orient; La Flute Enchantée is played with caressing delicacy by the beautiful slave-girl's lover; L'Indifférent subtly describes a handsome stranger who bypasses some unspecified hospitality...
...seat of taste, and the feeling of hunger resides in the stomach." Not complete imbeciles, they become suspicious of historians on reading that the Loire during the French Revolution was "red with blood from Saumur to Nantes, a length of 45 miles." But Dumas' romantic novels enchant them with the news of life they find there, i.e., that "love observes the proprieties, fanaticism is lighthearted, massacres excite a smile." Flaubert's unwritten but clearly foreshadowed ending: frustrated and impoverished, the simpletons go back to work as copying clerks...