Word: properities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hingle (as J.B.), Raymond Massey as Mr. Zuss (the balloon salesman who plays God), Nan Martin as J.B.'s wife, and Christopher Plummer as Nickels (the popcorn vendor who portrays Satan) are all excellent. Boris Aronson's set is magnificent; Miss Ballard's costumes catch the proper blend of the gaudy and grotesque; David Amram's music and Tharon Musser's lighting lend almost surrealistic overtones to the drama. And Kazan ringmasters his menagerie with the genius which has earned him his reputation...
...often the most highly paid men in the orchestra, sometimes even better paid than the concertmaster. Most oboists make their own reeds, the shape and size of which largely determine the instrument's tone. Harold Gomberg, who has made trips to Europe in search of cane of the proper hardness, grain and color, maintains a studio where he spends dozens of hours a week whittling reeds to size (he uses as many as three reeds in a concert). The trick in oboe playing is to pay out supplies of breath in small, even quantities. This, says Ralph Gomberg...
...scene is set in a proper little horror of a boardinghouse in a glum old watering place on the Channel coast of England. The proprietor (Wendy Hiller) is a sensible, good-tempered spinster, but she has her hands full. She has developed a personal complication with the star boarder (Burt Lancaster), a writer fellow from America who is bound he will make an honest woman of her-until one day his ex-wife (Rita Hayworth) comes slinking in the front door...
...mother who is being buried. His millionaire father has committed suicide, and Yurii is being brought up as a ward of the well-to-do Gromeko family in a gracious world of chamber-music concerts, fancy-dress balls and lofty ideals. His teen-age partner, prim and proper Antonina (Tonia) Gromeko, is destined to be his bride...
...Christian heritage is definitely a proper topic of study in a liberal education, as is any other major religion, James B. Adams, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professor of Divinity, declared yesterday...