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...this idea belies the surface simplicity of the painting. Whether or not the picture communicates as much as Chapin hoped it would, it does find a responsive chord in a great many people. Ruby Green is the public favorite in a deep-South museum: the Norton Gallery at West Palm Beach...
...CinemaScope screen is handsomely utilized for swordplay, torture chambers and a thundering chase sequence as well as for dramatic shots of the Way of the Cross and Christ's entrance into Jerusalem the week before the Crucifixion. Alfred Newman's music is especially effective in the Palm Sunday hymn and in a ballad charmingly sung by Betta (South Pacific) St. John...
TELEMETER, Paramount Pictures' device for bringing first-run movies and special events to tele viewers, will shortly get its first test (and the first test of any method of telecasting first-run movies). In Palm Springs, Calif., 400 homes will see a feature film the same night it is premiered in movie houses. Viewers will drop coins into their sets to "unscramble" the telecast, which cannot be received on an unmetered...
...Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...
...world's cobblers: a wooden Dutch shoe for the wet lowlands, a cool leather sandal for Arabia's hot sands, a warm quilted-cotton boot for Manchuria's bitter winters. Wooden manikins wore beautifully embroidered costumes from the Andean highlands and a fascinating suit of woven palm-fiber armor made for a South Sea island warrior. There were tiny statues, ceremonial masks, hoes and puppets from such widely separated areas as Borneo, Europe and Africa, all done with the same careful skill. And outside, the museum will soon set up its most ambitious project...