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...pretty thin stuff. The pleasure to be derived from Mr. Ritchard and company is like the pleasure from a professional ball game. The actions so perfect, all the flies snagged, precision done with ease. Ritchard, who looks as if he's been watching Rex Harrison, clearly had the part written for him and does it with a blinding polish. Miss Skinner is funny and of course an accomplished actress, but she's still much better on her own. Walter Abel acts suitably imposed upon as Ritchard's host. Charlie Ruggles makes an interesting character out of the dull role...
...TIME correspondent cabled from Venice: "An important, affecting work that will probably influence other composers who up to now have hesitated to attempt serial writing. It may never achieve real audience popularity, but it will rank with other infrequently done large works, such as Persephone and Oedipus Rex." Added U.S. Composer Alexei Haieff: "What Stravinsky is writing is the best twelve-tone music in the world today...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall in a light-hearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...
...elected Arizona's Governor in 1954, nursed his grudge against Goldwater, never missed a ribbon-cutting, a chance to wave at a gathering of constituents or shake an Arizona hand. Last week McFarland opened his senatorial campaign in Willcox. where 50,000 Arizonans were conveniently gathered for the Rex Allen Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile heads, chucking infant chins, then climbed ably astride...
...Reluctant Debutante. Rex Harrison and Wife Kay Kendall, ducking m and out of the soup in Director Vincente Minnelli's lighthearted peek at Mayfair manners and amorals (TIME...