Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, 83, seadog commander of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet in the tense years before Pearl Harbor, who defied threats from the Japanese without shooting at them, although his own U.S.S. Augusta was twice bombed, demanded and got $2,200,000 indemnity when the Japanese sank (1937) the U.S. gunboat Panay on the Yangtze, later, as a retired (1939) officer, denounced the dropping of atom bombs on Japan as "a diabolic act against a defeated nation"; in Newport...
Simonds was always in full command of his piano, and never over-pedaled. He produced as feathery and pearl-like scales, and as delicate trills as one could desire. (That marvelous soft, ghostly passage in the middle of the first movement, for pizzicato strings and trilling piano, came off especially well...
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...
Still, there are some good things about the show. Sammy Davis Jr., looking like an absurd Harlemization of Chico Marx, makes a wonderfully silly stinker out of Sportin' Life. The singing is generally good-particularly the comic bits by Pearl Bailey and the ballads by Adele Addison, who sings the role of Bess while Dorothy Dandridge acts it. And the color photography gains a remarkable lushness through the use of filters, though in time -2 hr. 36 min., including an intermission -the spectator may get tired of the sensation that he is watching the picture through amber-colored sunglasses...
...bunkroom buddy, went quietly over the hill and presented himself at a Trappist cloister under the first of his false identities: Anthony Ingolia. Demara was well aware that he had committed a crime, but at first he felt no guilt. Later, he was deeply disturbed by the Pearl Harbor attack. "I wanted to do my part," he has explained. "I like this country, you know. Where else but in America could a man do all I've done? That's what I call freedom!" He left the monastery, joined the U.S. Navy, faked some college credentials and presented...