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Although Princess Ida is by no means vintage Gilbert and Sullivan, it is obviously enough in the tradition of the acknowledged masterpieces to be familiar and enjoyable ground for the G. & S. lover. In most of their operettas, for instance, there is one piece which hearkens back effectively to the music of England's "Golden Age" of Purcell and Byrd. In Ida, the lovely duet-minuet sung by Melissa and Lady Blanche becomes, not so much from the quality of the singing as from the grace and obvious enjoyment of the singers, one of the high spots of the performance...
King Gama's mustachioed sons, Jonathan Levy, Peter Duren, and Don McIntyre, made the most of choice roles. Their delightful hamminess was emulated by a well-trained chorus which obviously enjoyed Princess Ida. So will weekend audiences...
...peace under a blue sky. In the living room of her one-story frame house, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Hodges, a pleasant, plump housewife of 32, was napping on a sofa. She was lying on her side, covered with two quilts, one hand resting on her hip. Her mother, Mrs. Ida Franklin, was sewing in the next room. Her husband, Hewlett, a telephone company tree surgeon, was away at work...
...been a "very great personal honor; when a marshal takes off his ceremonial dagger and gives it to you, that's something." Next day the Eisenhower family went to the Abilene cemetery to look at the graves of the President's parents. David Jacob and Ida Stover Eisenhower. The plain granite headstone marked "Eisenhower" was surrounded by dry, brown grass, and a worried frown crossed Ike's face. "Can't we do something about this old buffalo grass?" he asked...
...swearing. Richard Widmark drove his submaraine to Hell and High Water, while Allan Ladd was frozen in Hell Below Zero. Currently, some Italians have been renamed Hell Raiders of the Deep (an earlier, more ingenuous Widmark was content with the term "frogman" in the same line of work). Ida Lupino has also released a bit of whimsy called, for little reason, Private Hell 36. These are not good films...