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...blood and thunder saga o the career of Billy the Kid, who "in the brief span of twenty-one years sent twenty-one men to untimely graves," the musical manages to keep a plot together while the audience witnesses at least fifteen of the murders in addition to innumerable songs and dances. The music is good, though nothing for the Hit Parade. The cast and scenes are colorfully symbolic of New Mexico, the locale of the story...
Vardis Fisher's saga of primitive man reaches Volume III with Intimations of Eve (earlier volumes: Darkness and the Deep, The Golden Rooms). Without doubt these are the most remarkable subhistorical works ever written in the State of Idaho. Unrelated to one another so far as "story" goes, they are part of what Fisher obviously regards as a serious attempt to trace "the origin and evolution of human morality" from the days of the ape man to relatively modern times. At what point of human development the saga will end is not clear, nor is it altogether clear...
...uncertain. The two pictures offered a wide choice. Young Widow, a sentimental wartime domestic drama with incidental stretches of comedy, was overwhelmingly Jane-in mourning, in love, in various stages of dress and undress. In The Outlaw, Oldtimers Thomas Mitchell and Walter Huston did their sly best with the saga of Billy the Kid. Jane, as a sulky, sexy, persistently semiclad half-breed, had a relatively minor part...
...most famous scat skit is Melody in 4-F, the gaga saga of a G.I. which made the musicomedy Let's Face It famous. In this, while triple-tonguing his "de-geet gat giddle," Kaye mimicked an inductee pleading for deferment because of bad ears, flat feet, ulcers, decayed teeth; took him into training with a few key words like "Shad-ap!" (indicating a tough top sergeant) or "hut, tut, t'ree, fo" (for long marches). But mostly it was all "riddle-de biddle, de reep...
...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...