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Director Preminger has done well with his actors, too. David Niven is remarkable as the sort of rake that accumulates his life in his face, like a pile of dead leaves. Deborah Kerr provides one transcendent scene in which, as she overhears her man with another woman, her prim, pretty English face breaks up like a cooky in the fingers of a child. And Jean Seberg, rebounding from her disastrous debut as Joan of Arc (TIME, July 1), blooms with just the right suggestion of unhealthy freshness, a cemetery flower...
First of all, Knopf hits the booksellers. Most of them, he grumbles, are content merely to display books, make no effort to sell them. While the big book clubs peddle and pass out books by the hundreds of thousands, bookstore owners lazily rake in 40% commissions on books that leave the counters under their own power, pack the rest back to the publishers. The result is that "much of the time our inventory is gone today and here tomorrow...
From Terence, Wycherley took a hint for his chief character, a London rake named Horner, who, to make lust easier, spreads the report that he is impotent. At once husbands contemptuously allow him access to their wives, and soon the secretly gloating Horner has a harem. From Molière's L'Ecole des Femmes, Wycherley took his ingenuous young country wife, who is not quite carefully enough guarded by a jealous husband, and who proves as eager a pupil as Horner is a teacher...
Fats Domino, a chubby torpedo with the hands of a rake and the voice of a raspy chain saw, deposited his 300-pound frame at the piano and began to play. They turned on the house-lights. Fats, in a red silk toga, had been known to inspire hysteria...
...audiences in the Southwest can take their opera straight, during its two-month season will give English-language productions of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, Strauss's Ariadne on Naxos, Rossini's Barber of Seville, Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona, plus Stravinsky's Rake's Progress (conducted by Stravinsky Protégé Robert Craft) and the premiere of The Tower, a one-act opera by young (24) U.S. Composer Marvin Levy. Crosby is also proud that his Santa Fe group, recruited from such companies as the NBC Opera and the Lyric Opera...