Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...males in the cast give generally the most impressive individual performances, with Bruce MacDonald given highest honors because he cannot only sneer and hop, but sing. Benjamin Neilson, as the other Earl, is not troubled by this latter difficulty, but carries himself well and obscures none of the humor, which is all that counts. The Lord Chancellor, Arthur Waldstein, has an even less prepossessing voice, and occasionally his froggish hops seem uncertain and feeble, but he does manage some of Gilbert's speedier lyrics, all the while conveying a most Chancellorial wizenedness. Perhaps less sure of himself on stage...
...this droll tale of Southern confusion, there are some great moments of Philosophy and tragedy.--Mumbles Elvis' Big Brother Vance as he stands before his father's grave: "That is always the way. We go off and fight for four years and they (the Yanks) kill him at home." Humor--co-stars Richard Egan and Debra Paget gritting their teeth as Elvis sings "Yam Ganna Fix Dis Old House," a rock-and roll song (presumably about the South's reconstruction period). And, of course, Tenderness--Elvis (writhing from the hips as he dies): "Is Everything going to be all right...
...book's commentary (however subtle) on the West is upsetting, Russian life and thought emerge with a bitter humor. Russian religion, for example, is well described in a passage entitled "The Last Words of a Young Soviet Heroine: "I am not afraid to die. It is a great happiness to die for one's people. . . .Farewell, comrades. . . .Stalin will come...
...most exciting parts of the movie come in the unedited and continuous sequences of bullfighting. These are superb. Bryant Halliday's narration, which includes lines like, "This is the moment of supereme danger and nobility," doesn't and much to these sequences. Such an approach hides most of the humor of a bullfight. Funny things happen as much in the stands as in the arena...
Offstage, Pianist Haskil is a plain woman who wears no makeup to conceal the traces of suffering that line her face, but her features are livened by wisdom and humor. She was a prodigy, made her debut in Vienna at the age of nine, and won a Grand Prix at the Paris Conservatory at 14. After World War I, illness forced her into temporary retirement; later she took up playing sonatas with such greats as Ysaye, Enesco, Casals. She has appeared at the Casals festivals in France, and it was one of her younger colleagues there, Pianist Eugene Istomin...