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...story which the opera tells so effectively concerns a fake spiritualist, her young daughter, and a mute boy who acts as their helper in the phony seances. During one such session, the medium discovers to her horror that she does indeed possess supernatural powers. But since she is unable to face the fact she fixes on the boy, blames him for tricking her, and drives him away. He, however, returns unseen, with inevitable tragic results...
...part of the mute boy, Toby, was written for a performer who must combine the abilities of dancer and mime. Eugene Gervasi distinguishes himself in both capacities. He quite brilliantly manages to make his body and hands express the boy's desperate eagerness to speak, and, what is perhaps more difficult, project his love for the medium's daughter...
What enabled Stewart to survive and keep his sanity? The loyalty of his closest buddies and a mute faith in God, best exemplified for Stewart in the selfless devotion of a priest, Father Bill Cummings, who first said, "There are no atheists in the foxholes," and who died while saying the Lord's Prayer over the dying, his very last words those of Stewart's title-"Give us this...
...half-hour show takes its name and its animated M.C. from the 1950 Oscar-winning cartoon, Gerald McBoing-Boing, a moppet who cannot speak words but emits "boi-i-i-n-n-g-g-s" and other sound effects. Still mute except for an occasional train whistle, drum roll or dynamite blast, M.C. Gerald devotes six minutes of each program to showing a UPA (United Productions of America) film already seen in theaters, the rest to new material. This week little Gerald ran off UPA's version of Ludwig Bemelmans' picture tale, Madeline, putting his twelve little Parisian...
...Brit ain's Henry Moore, Germaine Richier takes her stand as a Pygmalion-in-reverse. Rather than working inert sculptor's materials to the polished, lifelike perfection of idealized beauty, she clings to the magic moment of metamorphosis, when half-glimpsed form begins to emerge from mute matter...