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...debut last year on vinyl of Handel's Rodelinda; now comes his tragicomic opera Serse, or Xerxes, which begins with the famous aria Ombra mai fu, generally called Handel's Largo, a song of praise to a plane tree. The deep, dark, mellifluous voice of Alto Maureen Forrester as the Persian king is set off by the light, bright vocal acrobatics of Lucia Popp, a rising young Czech soprano. Brian Priestman is the conductor, using the Vienna Radio Orchestra and Chorus and an excellent harpsichord accompanist...
Readings from De Sade. Sir Elwyn proceeded to call the first witness. She was Mrs. Maureen Smith, 19, Myra's sister. She testified that one night last December Myra had asked her husband David to walk her home. David Smith came to the stand and told what had happened when he got there. "I heard a scream and ran into the living room." There he saw Ian standing over a young man, striking him on the head with an ax. Said Smith: "I have seen butchers show as much emotion as he did when they were cutting...
...Rare Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds...
...fact, time proved them right, but Director Andrew McLaglen (son of Victor) uses the bare bones of history mostly to flavor his yarn. Even human mating instincts operate almost exclusively in relation to the bull. One eager beefer corners Maureen behind a candlelit table for two, panting, "Run out on me now, and your bull will wind up on that table tomorrow night...
...ladies from stampedes, seductions and desperadoes. He also delivers them safely to Texas Cattle Baron Brian Keith, who gives the film's liveliest performance as an unsanitary Scottish laird, up to his red beard in the debris of a crumbling ranch fortress that looks like condemned property. Maureen starts tidying up the place, Juliet busies herself with the rancher's neglected son (Don Galloway), while Vindicator is turned out to the open range, left to face a herd of cows who may or may not prove receptive to his aristocratic airs. All the livestock soon plods away discreetly...