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...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
Finding an empty car near the run, a night watchman called the cops, and after a long, moonlit search, the investigators found Monti and his men shoveling snow off the sled track as busily as neighbors clearing a driveway. Nonplused at having nabbed a world champion, the cops collected the shovels and made a report to the Bob-Wart (track steward). Next morning, with the backing of the Italian Bobsled Association, the steward and his Championship Jury disqualified Shoveler Monti's sled...
Among the 143 paintings and 43 sculptures, there were some works, of course, by a handful of men who stand above fashion. Charles Sheeler's California showed a moonlit village so radiant and calm as to bring Bethlehem to mind. Mark Tobey's Pacific Circle was as boldly abstract as anything on view, yet as subtle as it was bold; it pictured the elements mingling in a gentle storm...
Time Remembered is less moonlit than footlighted, and is most rewarding-in fact, is great fun-when it is a stylish theater piece, full of little acting doodads and knickknacks, of interpolated flourishes and roulades: a trio practicing orchid-eating, a wild snatch of Swan Lake, a bit of supper ritual, a quite mad hunting scene. As the flighty duchess, Helen Hayes -if not wholly French-is very often wholly delightful, alternating an actress' skill with a vaudevillian's liveliness. Richard Burton plays a prince who is more bored than bereaved with a fine sullen dash...
Berman's graveyard was bathed in a running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...