Word: magie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Halpin and Elaine Dunn should all have Broadway futures, but at the moment they can only enhance good material; they cannot save bad. What with undistinguished numbers and indistinguishable songs, a long-winded ballad about a killer and a dreadful adaptation of O Henry's Gift of the Magi, Catch a Mar! only intermittently catches...
Michelangelo's Conversion of St. Paul, in the Vatican's Pauline Chapel, had always troubled a Vatican official named Filippo Magi. The composition is dominated not by the prostrate St. Paul but by his horse, which Magi described as having "an expressionless and towering head similar to that of a mule." And curiously, the horse was bridled, though Michelangelo made a habit of painting horses without bridles. Last summer Magi persuaded a Vatican colleague, Professor Deoclecio Redig de Campos, that the strange beast might be the result of overpainting by some unknown bungler. De Campos took an infra...
Each Christmas Eve the members of Jerusalem's diplomatic corps gather, gorgeous in cocked hats, plumes and silver swords, and retrace the starlit route of the Magi from Jerusalem to Bethlehem. They climax the occasion with midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity...
...regrettable, however, that the Gift of the Magi--somewhat of a Yuletide classic--comes off with a distinct soap-opera flavor. But even with its two discards, Full House is a strong three of a kind. And enough of its actors are able to go beyond their scripts to make the movie worth seeing...
...stories: The Gift of the Magi (0. Henry's most popular story) about a poor bookkeeper (Farley Granger) who sells his gold watch to buy a set of jeweled combs for his wife (Jeanne Grain) for Christmas, while she sells her beautiful hair to buy him a platinum watch fob; The Last Leaf, in which an unsuccessful artist (Gregory Ratoff) paints his masterpiece to keep a dying girl (Anne Baxter) alive; The Clarion Call, about a cop with a conscience (Dale Robertson) who has to arrest an old chum (Richard Widmark...