Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera, but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...
...like an awakened frame of old Vermeer. Dramatically, the film has been admirably conceived and impressively executed. Religiously, it is rather shallow. There is merit in the picture's painstaking effort to convey the physical reality of convent life, but somewhere the spiritual reality is lost. The radiant pageant of devotion ravishes the senses, but it does not touch the heart...
...America Pageant (CBS, 11:15 p.m.-12:15 a.m.). Legs, legs and more legs, plus home economics, in a live broadcast of the finals in Fort Lauderdale...
...through Europe, televiewers watched Geneva's week-long series of ceremonies, commemorations and rededications. High point for Genevans was Switzerland's first "Son et Lumière," a $60,000 pageant of colored spotlights and tape-recorded voices that ranged all over the Reformation Monument, the university and the old city walls to illustrate with real-life details the story of the Great Reformer...