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...Chamber Music Players will present their Summer School Concert at 8:30 p.m. Monday, August 13, in Paine Hall. Members of the group are Martha Curti, Marguerite Jupp, Harry Wordstron, Sandy Shapiro, Vernon Head, James Wood, and David Lewin...
...Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...really good movies, like really good literature, are never so "literary" as this or so full of highly polished posturings. Director Lewin also sets himself the impossible task of trying to clean up a naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part...
Writer-Director Lewin reportedly contents himself with the assurance that those who are smart enough can still see, in spite of such subterfuges, everything that Maupassant really meant. Those who are smart enough for keyhole-peeping, and no smarter, will doubtless enjoy...