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Auctions: Theory & Practice. In theory, auctioning a work is the most accurate way to put a price on the priceless; in practice, its major visible flaw is "auction fever," in which rich amateurs get carried away and bid against one another to force prices up from 25% to 60% more than prudence dictates. But-also in practice-there is more to many an auction than the eye can see, mostly stemming from the fact that art dealers often comprise about three-fourths of the bidders...
...hand is the film's only defect. One wonders if it is really essential to spend so much footage on the Transylvanian folk festival when what we really want to know is how things stand in Dracula's castle above the town. But this is at most a minor flaw in a generally excellent production. Dracula's Daughter, in short, makes fine entertainment, and tomorrow night's WNAC presentation - The Mad Ghoul-promises to be equally rewarding...
...dance mattered more perhaps than either the music or the play-a choreoperetta. Now, with the help of full color, stereophonic sound, and a wider-than-widescreen process called Panavision 70, the play has been transformed into a supercolossal $5,000,000 cinemusical. Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology...
...confirmation of John A. McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the NR said: "He is the kind of man who hates Communism not because it has betrayed the revolution, but because he assumes it is the revolution. That is a flaw beyond correction...
Curtain Lowerers. The Searching Sun, the best-made play of the book, has the same flaw as The Farmer's Hotel and two of the others-a figure at the drama's core for whom the author has deep sympathy, but to whom nothing happens. In Sun he is a crippled doctor who sees the disintegration of a neighboring family. He is a novelist's device, like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, the reporter Jim Malloy, O'Hara's man-on-the-sidelines in Butter field 8 and Sermons and Soda...