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...candlelight that masked the rotting timbers in shadow and made her appear so formidable that even the City of Cambridge dared not violate her wishes by installing sewer connections. The great elms which gave the house its name had grown up into the sort of forest one finds in Grimm tales, and inside, each of the twelve large rooms was done up in gloomy Victorian style--a sad fate for what was once a bright, airy Colonial country house...
...with a wayward lock of grey hair, Grimond, 49, is not so much a policymaker as a popularizer with a flair for making the party's traditional championship of free enterprise and individual liberties seem timely to young citizens of Britain's welfare state. Grimond (pronounced Grimm-ond) is a tireless organizer who shuttles up to 80,000 miles a year between London, Liberal outposts and his far-flung constituency of Orkney and Shetland, a storm-battered 20-island chain in the North Atlantic, where he campaigns by motor launch and shanks' mare...
...Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm. "The answer to television!" So they said when Cinerama was first shown to the public in 1952, and for a couple of years praise was supported by performance: This Is Cinerama, the first full-length picture produced in the medium, has grossed more than $26 million. But the novelty soon wore off. For one thing, the customers were obviously irritated by the imperfections of the Cinerama process: the fuzzy vertical lines between the three panels of the picture; the jiggling of the panels and their variations of color and brightness; a degree of distortion...
...approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone], of which the last is wacky enough to make up for not being Grimm-it stars Terry-Thomas as a sort of dilapidated Lancelot, Hackett as his squirrely squire, and a 53-foot, kelly-green dragon that looks like a giant bejeweled pickle...
...same the film has faults that somehow seem three times as regrettable on three screens as they would have on one. The story, now that Cinerama has at last got around to telling one, seems hardly worth telling-the lives and loves of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the gentle German philologists who collected the famous folk tales, are scarcely the stuff of which movies are made. Furthermore, the film's interpretations of the tales, though amusing, incline to be cute and design to be sentimental. And the Cinerama process, still full of half-squashed bugs, presents at least...