Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tennis racket and hands it to his cat for breakfast. Besides birds and cats, Claude's posh villa is equipped with an English butler, an Iberian cutthroat (Francis Lederer), a bevy of nubile females who soothe his cares with piano solos and poetry readings. He also employs Smuggler Ray Milland, "who is a criminal too, but a nice one, since he is in the racket only for excitement, and disapproves of murder and dope addiction...
Rains's current caper is a $250,000 job for Maureen O'Hara, who has flown into Lisbon to find help in rescuing her industrialist husband from behind the Iron Curtain. But instead of getting on with the story, everyone stands around and talks. Ray tells Maureen how his divorced wife deceived him; Maureen tells Ray why she married a rich old man, and Yvonne Furneaux explains why she joined Claude's harem ("I have known destitution"), and laments that she isn't as pure as on her confirmation...
...meet the demands of TV. With all the talk of "electronic journalism," the show itself will have more to live up to this year: ¶ To brief the delegates and alternates-the real actors in the convention drama-and give them an idea of the camera's X-ray powers, CBS last month aired two (one for each party) closed-circuit "orientation broadcasts" to 167 affiliate stations, showing how TV plans to cover the conventions. Top commentators urged delegates to be "natural and sincere," warned that the relentless camera catches not only the impassioned oratory but private mutterings...
...play one day last week, hustled them into cars and buses and off to the nearest schoolhouse. Three women pulled their total of seven kids from a swimming pool and hauled them off, still dripping, in bathing suits. In High Point an hour-long traffic jam developed around the Ray Street School. Reason for the activity: North Carolina, 47th among the states in fulfillment of polio vaccination goals, was staging a blitz campaign to get out in front. In Guilford County (pop. 209,000) alone, busy physicians donated their time to man 55 clinics...
Producer-director Ted Hoffmann's handling of the cameras was disappointing, compared with Ray Wilding-White's fine job last summer. We got only frontal views of portions of the chorus or rear views of Schmidt almost exclusively. Now this is precisely what we can see in any concert hall. What TV alone can do (and should have done) is to include plenty of side-view shots of the conductor, especially close-ups. Few things are more fascinating to watch than the face of a top-notch conductor at work...