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...Cummings '15 will give the first of this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures tonight--"I and my parents"--at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The lecture, which is open to the public, will probably consist of a half-hour talk and readings from the work of several poets...
Limelight (Charles Chaplin; United Artists), Chaplin's first film in five years, is a sad disappointment. Intended as a tragicomedy, if not a tearjerker, it is a two-thirds bore that comes to life in the last half-hour or so, when the old-master clown stops trying to be pathetic and reverts to his inimitable proper stuff. The 63-year-old comedian, who wrote the script (and the music) and directed the movie, plays an aging, down-at-heel music-hall performer who saves a beautiful young ballet dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide in World War I London...
...squad of NBC technicians and Navy people have been picking through 60 million feet of him, accumulated in ten countries and much of its heretofore secret, cutting and splicing it into a series of television documentaries on World War II at sea. They have knitted that film into 26 half-hour programs, added a narrator and a score by Richard Rodgers, and hired the NBC Symphony to play the music. The series starts at 1:30 p.m. this Sunday on WBZ; the Navy screened a preview of the first two episodes last night, and if they have any predictive value...
...later, she listened to her own distinctive voice played back, circled three notes on the music and said: "I think I was a little off here. Let's try it again." The second take sent the control-room people into ecstasies. Listening to it afterward, Jo discussed her half-hour's work of singing dispassionately: "It Should sell like You Belong to Me," she said. "It's got the same lustiness. It's gutsy...
Korea, corruption, and prosperity highlighted F.D.R., Jr.'s half-hour talk before a packed Stevenson rally in the Brattle Theatre last night. Speaking at the end of an eighty-minute rally sponsored by the Cambridge Volunteers for Stevenson, he called the Taft-Eisenhower meeting at Columbia University the "Munich of Morningside Heights" and referred to the Senator as "six-star General Taft...