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Heading in to town via Tremont street, unlimited vistas of amusement enfold before the evening stroller. The Beacon Hill Theater, for instance, is featuring Sir Codic Hardwicke in Nicholas Nickleby and Deborah Kerr in Black Narcissus, an all-British twin bill. A turn to the left will put you on Washington Street, Boston's Broadway and home of the bigge movies. They include...
...main point is that "Mr. Raphaelson's criterion 'easy to follow' applies best to the funny papers," which is so. It is also true that this standard led to some flippancy that Miss Handy points out, and to a false judgment of her own poem "Narcissus," which she does not point out, but which I hereby correct by announcing that in my chastened opinion, reached after a re-reading, "Narcissus" is a fine poem, in spite of the confusing punctuation that makes it seem harder to follow than...
...poetry. I liked two of the poems and I didn't like the two others. The poor ones were "Oaks In Winter," because it is like all the other poems written by young girls about trees and flowers, although technically, I suppose, it is quite good; and "Narcissus," because it is too hard to follow. The good ones, for my money, were "The Innocents," by Adrienne Rich '51 and "That Time Removes," by Anne Tolstoi '49. Both authors have a sure grip on the language they use, and on their media in general. Miss Rich's poem is particularly lucid...
Married. Sabu Dastagir, 24, chesty, India-born cinemactor (Elephant Boy, Black Narcissus), wartime 6-24 tailgunner (he won the D.F.C. in 1945); and Marilyn Cooper, 20, blonde cinema bit player; in Los Angeles...
...Younger sister of Novelist Rumer Godden (Black Narcissus...