Word: masters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Torment is a pretty film because the boy breaks so cleanly with his past, because Caligula is a master beast, and because Miss Olsen drinks herself to death with brandy, rather than cheap rotgut. But the film never rises to a high level because the trio's, and most especially the boy's torment lacks both the moral depth of Joyce's Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man and the personal intensity of Anderson's Tea and Sympathy. The three are unhappy, but not convincingly miserable...
...distributor. Times Film Corp., set out to prove that 1) the picture is not obscene, and 2) the city's censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game of Love was obscene because he had become sexually aroused while watching it. To the dismay of the lawyers, both a district court and a circuit court of appeals sided with the censors...
This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
...Fred Gwynne) to rob an armored car of $1,000,000 just to impress a lady (Mildred Natwick). Playing a sometime short-order cook whose sauces could give a hamburger that certain "jenny-say-kwah," Lahr mugged, pranced, bellowed ("Ngha, ngha, ngha-a-a-a-!"), did all that a master's timing could do for some jokes so long-fused they may explode on next week's show. By lavishing a lifetime of comic know-how on his role, Lahr salvaged a few minutes of fun from what may be the ultimate in ersatz-an hour of hothouse...
Died. Moro Naba ("Master of the Earth"), 53, sword-waving, plume-wearing emperor of the warlike French West African Mossi tribe (some 1,700 members), whose government council seated both a minister of war and of defeat (on the grounds that victory needs no diplomatic skill but defeat does), and whose tribal tradition demanded that he titularly declare war on the neighboring Soussou tribe every Wednesday morning and allow himself to be "persuaded" by tribal elders to postpone the expedition; after a short illness; in Ouagadougou, French West Africa...