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Edge of the City (at Loew's Lancaster Theatre near North Station through Saturday). The moving tale of an intelligent Negro who befriends a confused white youth--both in the grips of a racially bigoted foreman. One of the decade's best films, with flawless performances by Sidney Poitier, John Cassavetes and Jack Warden...
...only 2.6% over the Tories. Yet by sweeping Quebec's bloc of 75 Commons seats, the Liberals can ride out the Tory gains elsewhere. Last week the 75-year-old Prime Minister moved spryly through the Quebec countryside, battening down the Liberals' holdings with talks in flawless French. "I will tell you a secret, which really isn't a secret, concerning the method which has helped me to succeed," confided St. Laurent. "I have always believed that the concept of père de famille is the best one to apply in public administration...
...performance is harder to appraise: he is in a sense too good for French farce without always being entirely right for it. His clowning has always a certain human appeal; his zany genius is rooted in character and a little disrupted by plot. His own timing is flawless, but too personal for pacing flat, stylized farce. He doubtless gives the play something extra. But if Hotel Paradiso lacks the sustained period-farce verve of last season's The Matchmaker, it may partly be because Lahr is not Ruth Gordon's equal as a center tent-pole, either...
Such textbook faults would have been fatal at the National Field Trial Championships for bird dogs, a test that encourages professional handlers and emphasizes flawless technique.* The annual National Shooting Dog Championship is different-a competition among dogs that earn their keep by hunting, not performing. So spectators and judges alike look first to see how a dog performs the basic job of finding birds before worrying about his style and etiquette. Because it sticks to this practical approach and limits dog handlers to amateurs, the eight-year-old championship has become the nation's best test...
...that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered and nearly flawless. He clearly recognized the limits of the Mozart style and stayed within them. The only incongruities were the two cadenzas--fascinating but stylistically too advanced--which on later inquiry turned out to be by Beethoven. There were also from time to time some rough edges in the orchestra...