Word: millers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disregards the abusrd Hollywood-type funeral cortege that closes the film, The Crucible turns out to be an exciting movie, which unfortunately does not do justice to Miller's play...
...pity that the French were the first to attempt an adaptation of Arthur Miller's controversial play The Crucible. The Salem witch trials, conducted in the severe Calvinistic atmosphere of colonial New England, represent an American aberration that Director Raymond Rouleau and his forces do not sufficiently comprehend. The fact that the good people of Salem talk French, and that the town itself is depicted as the type of medieval slum most often found in realist movies throws the entire production almost irretrievably off balance...
...chastize and control the stiff-necked rabble of the town. Thus, in the movie version, Proctor chooses to die for a cause rather than to preserve his own integrity. This distortion, coupled with an over-simplification of the motives of each character, considerably lessens the dramatic power of Miller's play...
...highest paid entertainer, the hottest music-hall performer to hit the scene since the end of World War II. Last week, appearing in the open-necked brown shirt and slacks that are his trademark, Yves (pronounced Eve) Montand made his first U.S. appearance at Manhattan's Henry Miller Theater-and proved the bravos that he has had in Europe...
...Very First Time (Glenn Miller and his Orchestra; RCA, 3 LPs). A resurrection of 50 previously unreleased recordings of Miller broadcasts dating from the early '40s, when the band was in its roaring prime. The selections-I Cried For You, A-Tisket A-Tasket, Sweet and Low-carry a mistily nostalgic air, the big band sound is refulgent, and the phonograph shivers to a boldly swinging beat that has all but disappeared from the modern dance orchestra...