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...This florid tale has been given flamboyant direction with overemphasis on such familiar thriller props as jangling telephones and doorbells, blaring radios, sudden shrieks and cats yowling in the night. Gaunt, towering Jack Palance makes an unusual leading man for Joan, while Gloria Grahame gives a pungent performance as the scheming other woman. As for Joan, she suffers bravely and beautifully-in gowns by Sheila O'Brien, lingerie by Tula, furs by Al Teitelbaum, and hats...
Gilda Hoffman, Radcliffe '54, was soloist in the Mozart D minor Piano Concerto. Miss Hoffman, who won the position in a contest sponsored by the Pierian Sodality last fall, demonstrated a masterful, florid technique in what seemed to be an effortless performance. Her approach to the concerto was decidedly feminine. Emphasizing the somber, lyrical aspects of the work, her interpretation was a poctic and deeply personal one. Stanger's conducting of this piece showed great improvement over his previous efforts with Mozart. Combining delicacy with dynamism, he gave Miss Hoffman the line orchestral support she deserved...
...other demand is that we accept the first-person narrative as being the heroine's actual stream of consciousness. Mr. Morton has a naturally florid style, and his exploitation of the descriptive powers of the English language leads him into a gaudiness of analogy and description which is especially ill-adapted to hectic first-person narration. ("It was a terrifying thing, a pale apple-green cloud, like a carbuncle in the anthracite...
...things went wrong, right from the start. "Why, I've seen that guy around a hundred times," said one waiting photographer. "I thought he was just an ex-pug." Grunewald, a stumplike man with a florid face and a squashed nose, seemed willing enough to talk. His lawyer, however, had different ideas. Mincing around in front of Grunewald was dapper William Power Maloney, who chirruped: "He's not answering any questions." "Say ah," teased a reporter, but Henry wouldn't. Then lawyer and client disappeared into the subcommittee's hearing room...
...music is distinctively Menottian -sometimes obvious but always packed with powerful melodic appeal. Composing for a twelve-year-old star was a problem. One choice was to keep all the singing roles simple and "wide-eyed"; another was to keep the boy's part easy, the others more florid. Menotti chose middle ground, and although he has some difficult singing (and acting) to do, curly-haired and clear-voiced little Chet Allen of Princeton's Columbus Boychoir carries it off beautifully. Menotti has no peer when it comes to setting the English language to music and, as always...