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...double-entendres pile up like cordwood, with hardly a spark of fun. In spots, without risking originality, the songs and dances give the movie some zest. Too often they display the outworn grotesqueries of Carmen Miranda and the excessive juvenility of Actress Powell. Occasionally, to denote conscious hamming by members of the heroine's acting fam ily, the soundtrack breaks into a few pompous bars of Wagner. It is not much of a gag, but it is a handy guide to the intentions of the players...
Three Hollywood couples who had announced their separations suddenly decided to try it again: Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature and wife Dorothy; Carmen Miranda and Producer-husband Dave Sebastian; World War II Hero Audie Murphy and Starlet-wife Wanda Hendrix...
...Ariel of Jan Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...
Rehearsals begin tonight for the Harvard Theater Workshop's final production, Shakespeare's "The Tempest," director Albert Marre 1G said yesterday. The cast will include Robert Fletcher '50 as Prospero, Thayer David as Caliban, Jan Farrand as Ariel, and Naomi Raphaelson '50 as Miranda...
Castings, which were completed last night, are only temporary, Marre emphasized. Miss Raphaelson, who beat out four professional actresses for her part, still has plenty of work ahead, he said, in order to play Miranda when "The Tempest" opens May 4 in Brattle Hall...