Word: prop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With this spindle-thin plot, Music Man needs every available prop of period nostalgia, from Fourth of July fireworks to Wells Fargo wagons. The trouble is that the movie wobbles continually between sentiment, satire and satiety; one barbershop-quartet number is a treat; half a dozen are a trial. Robert Preston nonetheless puts enough showmanly sizzle into a revival-styled pitch called Trouble and the celebrated Seventy-Six Trombones to make at least part of the 2½ hours roll by like enchanted minutes. The Music Man is only funny by fidgets, but lip-curling Hermione Gingold, looking like Nero...
...high point of this production. The attendants are well blocked, and Basehart and Bosco mesh wonderfully. Their pacing and their subtle give-and-take are just right. And Basehart times his "Ay, no; no, ay" to perfection. This is a moving spectacle indeed. There remains only for the prop department to come up with a better hand-mirror than an allwooden imitation; the best actor in the world could not dash it to the floor with the glass "crack'd in a hundred shivers...
...Burma treetops in support of British General Orde Wingate's Chindits. The outfit was disbanded shortly after World War II. But today at Eglin, members of the all-volunteer 1st Air Commando Group work with ancient C46 and C-47 transports, stub-nosed B-26 light bombers, and prop-driven, single-engined T-28 trainers. Last month at Eglin, President Kennedy laughed aloud during a spectacular, jet-packed Air Force show when a venerable Air Commando C-47 shot sharply into the sky belching smoke from JATO rocket boosters. But the Air Commandos are no laughing matter...
...years ago, an 8-lb. dumbbell used to prop a window screen slipped from a maid's frantic grasp and plummeted eight floors from the Ritz Tower Hotel to hit and fatally injure a vacationing Detroit financier walking up Manhattan's 57th Street toward Park Avenue with his wife. Ending a $500,000 suit against the apartment's owners. TV Star Arlene Francis and her husband, Producer Martin Gabel, the widow of Alvin Rodecker settled for $175,000 from the Gabels and $10,000 from the Ritz Tower, both insured for such public liability...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...