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...Story of Robin Hood and The Sword and the Rose, Producer Disney spent no more than $1,500,000. He took a small crew of technicians and not very famed actors to the same ground his story was lived on-in this case the Scottish Highlands. There, among the dingy granges and the ancient trods of the Trossachs country, where the furry cattle stand and stare in the emerald braes as they have for hundreds of years, he set up his cameras. The players appear to feel themselves living again in an age of fable, charm-changed into people...
...doubts exist in spite of all the pasteboard pscudo-springs that will slide from the envelopes in Memorial hall this afternoon. For we are sure that the multi-colored cards will brazenly sport the word "spring" whether or not the unequivocal sign of the robin follows. We don't know whether our doubts are entirely due to the seasonal slush or the boredom of the examination period. Perhaps the scientists and the politicians should rightfully share part of the guilt. Every year now, we've felt that it's only through a chance combination of treaties, agreements, and nervous glances...
...Said Hoad: "I've had tennis for the moment." ¶ In Cincinnati, meeting at the N.C.A.A. convention, the unofficial Ivy League finally made it official. Beginning in 1956, the Ivies-Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale-will meet one another in football on a round-robin basis for a regular conference championship. ¶ In Melbourne, Australian Trackman John Landy, whose 4:02.1 mile is the third fastest on record, set an Australian two-mile mark of 8:58.2. ¶ In Rio de Janeiro, Emil Zatopek, Czechoslovakia's triple Olympic winner, running over a soggy track...
...Pretend (Sat. 2:05 p.m., CBS). Radio adaptation of Robin Hood...
...hero of the picture is a G.I. intended by the script to be just like every other G.I., and played by Kirk Douglas with aggressive averageness. The heroine is the girl of a censor's dreams-a nice-girl prostitute. Trying to be both at once, Actress Dany Robin seems most of the time like nobody at all, but she is one of the most appetizing new French dishes set before U.S. moviegoers in recent years...