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Giant (George Stevens;Warner). Texas, as the saying goes, is a state of mind; and as such, it is not bounded by thirtysix-thirty and the Rio Grande. Indeed, the bestselling 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, on which this picture is based, bellowed from the bookstalls that Texas in modern times is a microcosm of materialism, a noisome social compost of everything that is crass and sick and cruel in American life. Texas bawled like a branded dogie when the book was published, not without reason; if Author...
...Ferber was telling the truth, it was certainly not the whole truth about Texas. And in the film, though Director George Stevens has pulled some of Author Ferber's wilder punches. Texans will probably still find plenty to holler about. But moviegoers in other parts of the world will surely find even more to cheer at. In the hand of a master moviemaker. Giant has been transformed from a flashy bestseller into a monumental piece of social realism...
...Stannard Baker, made its biggest impact under Editor John Siddall, who pushed circulation from less than 500,000 to over 2,000,000 between 1915 and 1923 with the inspirational magic of success stories. In its time, American was the first to run Kipling's If and Edna Ferber's short stories, ranged in contributors from Skeptic H. L. Mencken to Booster Bruce Barton. When Editor Sumner Blossom took over in 1929, he announced, "Horatio Alger doesn't work here any more," and American turned itself into a family magazine. It went on thriving for years...
...Herbert Ferber, 49, dentist turned sculptor, welds together forms as spiny as cactus and as flowing as underwater foliage. Seymour Lipton, 51, also uses curved and unfolding plant forms to give a sense of enclosed space that, to Sculptor Lipton, suggests a "togetherness . . . of feeling and meaning, of inside and outside, of past and future." Egyptian-born Ibram Lassaw, 42, is the mystic among sculptor-welders; his brazed metal rods seem to float in the air like airy skyscraper girders. David Hare, 38, a color photographer turned surrealist, can put together a few jagged pieces of metal and dangling rods...
Front Row Center (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Dinner at Eight, the George S. Kaufman-Edna Ferber stage and screen hit, starring Pat O'Brien, Mary Astor...