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...strip is like putting down on an aircraft carrier-visitors to these islands can go by jet only as far as St. Maarten; from there they proceed either by boat or Windward Islands Airways International (Winair). For Montserrat and Barbuda, the traveler flies to Antigua and then takes LIAT, acronym for Leeward Island Air Transport. On to the islands...
...what proved to be a devastating blow. Catinella was pinned by the Indian's Mike Liat midway through their bout. The loss was Catinella's second in as many bouts, and, as Harvard coach John Lee said earlier this week. "When Catinella loses, we're usually in trouble...
Even as it stands there are moments; Liat looking shy and beautiful; Steve Cotler (Billis) shouting orders like a half-pint Sergeant Bilko; Jeanne Klein, a freshman Cliffie, reincarnating Bloody Mary; a chaotic chorus-line finale to "Wonderful Guy"; a lovely, half-drunk kiss between Nellie and Emile; Stolber singing "This Nearly Was Mine." But then there always are moments, and last night they were few and awfully far between...
...girl," boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy rejects girl, boy returns to girl (Yum Yum!) but cannot support her baby, girl walks out because she loves baby better, baby is killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat of the movie version of South Pacific) who goes farthest toward saving the show with her high-heeled stance, her eloquent hips and her intelligent impersonation of a tough but dreamy little tramp. Director Josh Logan is unworried. After opening night he was overheard saying: "This is the kind of play that...
...naval officers, men and nurses on a U.S-held island in the New Hebrides. Nurse Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor) falls in love Some Enchanted Evening with a middle-aged French planter (Rossano Brazzi). Marine Lieut. Joseph Cable (John Kerr) meanwhile engages in some Happy Talk with a native girl named Liat (France Nuyen), who dances around looking Younger Than Springtime on an island called Bali Ha'i. And the sailors, inspired by a Seabee named Luther Billis (Ray Walston), mill around on the beach, shouting that There Is Nothing Like a Dame. But the picture spends most of its time...