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Medallion Theater (Sat. 10 p.m., CBS). Helen Hayes in Battle Hymn...
What saves Ratoons' mechanical plot is Novelist Rooke's sense of scene. Among the book's vivid ones: a sweaty Hindu midwife charging across a hut head down and butting her patient to speed delivery; a band of Zulus chanting a hymn of hate for Hindus: "Who is it that takes our land? The little coolie, the skeleton. Who is this rat that walks like a lion amongst the Zulus? . . . Rise, O Zulus, kill...
...screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion. Alfred Newman's music is especially effective in the Palm Sunday hymn and in a ballad charmingly sung by Betta (South Pacific) St. John...
...built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart. In Love-o'-Women and On Greenhow Hill, he managed to rate love higher than etiquette; and in Without Benefit of Clergy he actually sang a tender hymn to miscegenation...
...residence and dormitory. The result was a kind of apogee of the nature-loving, creature-comfortable Christianity for which the U.S. is noted. "Beauty, godliness and away-from-the-city fellowship," according to Smith, lead Green Lakers to "a closer walk with God" (in the words of their favorite hymn). Says Smith: "Business calls its conferences in places where it can press the total impact of its message. Why not religion? Here one can look at life whole and steadily under the impact of God's beauty...