Word: magically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potent, apparently, is the magic of the lightless bus that a legend has arisen which quotes a bus driver who had come on the job in April as saying. "I'd be afraid to take the thing over the state line...
...Except for an "upbeat" ending, which Co-Scripter Williams reluctantly imposed on Playwright Williams at the urging of Hollywood, the film gives a reasonably faithful reading of the play. Painstakingly produced and expensively cast, it tries conscientiously to rework the frail story in movie terms. But the charm, the magic and the vague sadness of the play are lost...
Though called a children's show, Mr. I. Magination (Sun. 6:30 p.m., CBS-TV) appeals equally to adults. But it leaves teen-agers cold. "They're tough," says Paul Tripp, 35, who plays Mr. I. and supplies much of the show's creative magic. "We just can't get the ones between...
...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...
...synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study and a delightful example of moviemaking magic...