Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When good reviewers die a winged usherette leads them to The Great Projection Room in the sky where, for eternity, they watch pictures like Beat the Devil. For this is one of those scarce films that will hold to a regular re-run schedule, and be just as fresh and sparkling the sixth time around as it was the first...
...times edges Beauty beyond the point of excellence into the realm of excess. Josette Day's performance as Beauty scores the danger larking in an overdose of horror. The plot demands that the heroinc ignore self-opening doors, living statuary and arms that project through the wall to hold candelabra. Furthermore, she must recognize the pure soul of the Beast shining through a hair-matted body and lighting a vaguely feline and totally grotesque face (superb make-up, this). Well, the actress does not live who can convince me that she has really learned to live with a monster...
...paling of Beauty's more spectacular effects, it remains an excellent picture, and a young classic. Like many of his fellow European directors, Cocteau dominates his work. Since, almost by tradition, fairy tales are short on precise or involved characterization, Cocteau could not rely on sympathy to hold the audience's interest on the mystic proceedings. Nevertheless, he grips, and almost strangles each viewer's attention. Nor does he just exploit weird effects. Cocteau's directional touches such as camera angles and positions, lighting and movement of the actors are things that would vastly improve even the most chewed-over...
...turn in his final lap, but Hawkins made it up against Dennis O'Conner and converted it into a two-foot lead. Jorgensen, swimming with a heavy cold, fever, and lots of guts, then kept up with Kerry Donovan for the first 50 yards, but he couldn't hold on. Donovan must have covered the last lap in 50 seconds to beat Jorgensen's 52.6 by eight feet...
Weld South and Matthews North continued to hold undisputed leads as the freshman intramural volleyball league moves into its closing stages this week. Both teams are undefeated with 4 to 0 records. Present standings are: AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pct. Weld South 4 0 1.000 Apley 3 1 .750 Massachusetts 3 1 .750 Thayer Middle 2 1 .667 Lionel 2 2 .500 Thayer North 1 2 .333 Mower 1 4 .200 Matthews North 0 5 .000 NATIONAL LEAGUE Matthews South 4 0 1.000 Hollis 5 1 .867 Grays South 3 2 .600 Holworthy 2 2 .500 Stoughton...