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Rome Refallen. He has followed El Cid with 55 Days at Peking (TIME, Sept. 14). An $800,000 Peking rose out of the rainless plains northwest of Madrid only to be razed by fire at the picture's climax, with Ava Gardner and Charlton Ming-Heston caught in the fumes. Now he is filming The Fall of the Roman Empire (Sophia Loren, James Mason, Alec Guinness), and next he will re-create The Circus, Paris 1900 and The French Revolution...
Graham-White's set with a Klee backdrop was interesting and the lighting by Ming (of Mongo, no doubt) had some imaginative touches. It is a pity that a little more attention was not paid to the cast, particularly the supporting actors and the toughs, for without it, the play was not poignant and affecting, as intended, but off-color and downright silly...
...meeting had its obvious repercussions in Red China. Radio Peking called Tito "a running dog of U.S. imperialism" and the newspaper Kuang Ming described Yugoslavia as a hotbed of crime and adultery, pointing out that 10% of the children born in Belgrade each year are illegitimate...
Madama Butterfly, you know, is about as Japanese as lasagne. The Boston Opera Group's production, which will be presented again at the Harvard Square Theatre tomorrow night, almost manages to convince us otherwise: Ming Cho Lee's set is delicately authentic in shades of grey; the second-act Flower Duet culminates in an inspired bit of flower-arranging rather than in the usual mess of pink petals strewn about the stage; best of all, the cast is almost entirely Japanese. We are, as I said, almost convinced that Madama Butterfly is really about Japan-but Puccini's music spoils...
This week Murrow and his top aides will trek up to Capitol Hill and argue that the agency's budget should be in creased by 12% to $125 million for the fiscal year beginning July. Murrow wants to step up the Voice's current program ming of 730 hours a week around the world to compete with Russia's 1,067. He wants to distribute more cheap editions of U.S. books abroad. He wants to send more labor advisers and students over seas. ("The best kind of communication," intones Murrow, "is still face to face...