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Although a pastoral work--the mythical story of the love of the nymph Galatea for Acis, a youthful shepherd--Lowell's production will, following the original, make "the acting secondary to the delivery of the music," according to Mathis...
...over the fact that she killed her lover, John Lester Mee, with a .22 pistol. In sentencing Cootch-Dancer Schmidt to 15 yeacs for manslaughter (TIME, Feb. 2), the judges had chided her for "appearing nude on the deck of [Mee's] yacht like a nymph," and for "swimming naked in [Havana] Bay." Said Toledo-born Satira: "They just don't understand our customs...
That lightning rational sharpness which is among Olivier's surest assets may also account for a weakness. He freezes such a jet of enchantment as Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered with cold irony; but on the words, Are you honest? he is like a scalpel. He is a particular master of the sardonic, of complex reaction and low-keyed suffering, of princely sweetness and dangerousness of spirit, and of the mock-casual. On the invention of business, he is equally intelligent and imaginative. I am glad to see thee well is delivered with...
...TIME'S apologies to Artist Evergood for stupidly attributing to him the New Masses' high-flown comments. For a sample Evergood nymph...
...confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...