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Anthony Quinn and Walter Slezak are suitably hateful as menaces, and Miss O'Hara is gorgeous in Technicolor. Fairbanks is energetic, but seems aware of the dangers of trying to imitate his late father. The elder Fairbanks would not only have given Sinbad more athletic bounce; while he was about it, he would also have slyly kidded the stuffing out of the plot's cloth-of-gold shirt...
...omnipotent moviemakers moved millions of dollars' worth of Technicolor equipment into the simple lives of the simple Baxter family. The Florida sky is a shade too breathtakingly blue and the piercing green palm fronds are arranged into self-consciously composed landscapes; even the dusty good earth is downright gorgeous...
...mixed quality. Alfred Drake (Oklahoma I's Curly) is in fine voice as Macheath, and Avon Long as Careless Love and Zero Mostel in the role of Hamilton Peachum come through with excellent characterizations. On the dancing side, Marjorie Belle, blonde and diminutive danseuse, is insciously graceful indeed, her gorgeous gyrations highlighting much of the second act. Libby Holman, featured female performer, disappoints with both her singing and acting as Miss Jenny. All in all, there is a mint of fine material and talent in "Twilight Alley"; with proper editing and direction, its Broadway stay may be a long...
...York in the '20s and helped Novelist Carl Van Vechten discover Harlem. In the '30s his book on Bali started a vogue that still persists. In his newest book, Mexico South: the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Knopf; $7.50), Artist-Writer Miguel Covarrubias has done it again. His gorgeous portfolio of prose, paintings and photographs, introducing to the U.S. the statuesque beauties of Tehuantepec, should do much to make the isthmus a new fad and a tourist goal...
March of the Penitents. The Church of the Nazarenas was built around the wall, and the painting, set in a gorgeous silver mounting, was elevated like Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe for all to see. Each year the image of Our Lord of Miracles was borne in procession on visits to other Lima churches. The poorer classes made the festivity their own, and a brotherhood grew up, now numbering some 3,000, to organize the procession and above all, to carry the heavy litter with Our Lord of Miracles...