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...insistently struck when Robert Drouin, a Paris TV producer, drives through an all-night snowstorm across a wide Flanders plain as featureless and flat as any Midwestern prairie. He asks directions at a roadside inn where huge transcontinental trucks cluster and the room rocks with the blare of a jukebox and the colored lights and clatter of pinball machines. Even the ancient, canal-veined city of Bruges, whose chimes and carillons sound like "pianos in the sky," has a night face of glaring neon and "pure American" funeral parlors with displays of open, polished coffins...
Among the musicals, Camelot compensates for a weak book with its opulent sets, some fine Lerner-Loewe tunes and Star Richard Burton. Do Re Mi, a Runyonesque piece about jukebox racketeering, is nearly salvaged by the inspired antics of Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker...
...musicals, Camelot is very much worth seeing for "the splendor of its sets, the best of its Lerner-Loewe tunes and its stars, Richard Burton and Julie Andrews; Do Re Mi, with a story of jukebox racketeering that is mere rundown Runyon, is almost saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker; and the best of the lot may well be the pert, piquant French import, Irma La Douce, with delightful Dynamo Elizabeth Seal. The holdovers-not counting the perennials such as My Fair Lady and The Music Man-are topped by Fiorello!, an unpretentious reminiscence of the Little Flower...
...Although its story of jukebox racketeering is mere rundown Runyon, this musical is saved by Stars Phil Silvers and Nancy Walker and its occasionally amusing Comden-Green lyrics...
...York's Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Robert Soblen was looked upon as a crack psychiatrist, even if a crusty one. He took a fatherly interest in the 100 mentally distressed adolescent boys in his care, saw to it that they had weekly jukebox parties, inspired them to learn trades, helped many of them to rehabilitate themselves. Respecting his professional skill, other doctors overlooked his personal quirks: a nervous temper, a streak of arrogance. Many knew but few cared that Robert Soblen was the brother and image of confessed Communist Spy Jack Soble, sentenced in 1957 to seven years...