Word: grayness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WARRIORS (242 pp.)-A Glenn Gray-Harcourt, Brace...
Destry Rides Again (book by Leonard Gershe; music and lyrics by Harold Rome; direction and choreography by Michael Kidd) ups curtain on the Last Chance Saloon with the lady that's known as Frenchy (Dolores Gray) sashaying forward in a red-sequined gown to treat some of her plug-ugly admirers to a song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order...
Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...
Most scenes with the Agha are shot in the neutral gray of shadowy interiors. Only once--on horseback--does he come fully into the sunlight, where he briefly loses stature. In contrast, the world of Manolios and his "apostles" appears as the quietly violent whiteness of the Greek countryside, a brightness broken by the cold black of one night scene--during which Manolios goes through the agony of mockery, rejection, and self-doubt...
Also, John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History and Associate Director of the Center for East Asian Studies; Marshall Fixman, instructor in Chemistry; Clarke T. Gray, Leonard Wood Memorial Research Associate in Biochemistry; Lowell P. Hager, assistant professor of Chemistry; and Raimundo Lida, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures...