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Sibelius: En Saga; In Memoriam; The Bard; Pelleas and Melisande Suite; Valse
...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...
Playwright Regan's East-Side saga obeyed every rule. Mama was widowed and warmhearted. One daughter, on the eve of her wedding, perished in a sweatshop fire. Another daughter married a gay blade who carried on with other women. The only son was killed making the world safe for democracy. The kindly boarder (Joseph Buloff) followed Mama around for three acts and 20 years, finally won her elderly hand as the curtain fell. For realism, there was yet another daughter, mean and ornery as they come. For atmosphere, there was an endless amount of Jewish cooking. For laughs, there...
Telephones clang and people rush through the city-room, the way they always have in the movies, in this latest saga of the newspaper world. But the old-fashioned belly-laugh finds a fruitful haven in "His Girl Friday," with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell carrying off most of the honors. The story, what there is of it, is nothing new; girl reporter divorces the boss and decides to quit for a quiet home life with an insurance salesman. Boss dislikes the idea, and with the help of a real reporter's murder story gets girl back. Salesman goes back...
Nevertheless, this unrelieved saga of march and massacre, played by a topheavily male cast, whose embarrassing way of laughing at Spencer Tracy's feeblest sallies gets loonier as they get hungrier, is more than run-of-the-mill cowboys and Indians. Responsible are King Vidor's veteran directing, his earnest regard for realism in frontier history, some first-rate Technicolor photography, and the capable acting of Spencer Tracy. As Ranger Rogers, Spencer Tracy is as much at home in a whaleboat in Northwest Passage as he was in a fishing boat in Captains Courageous. It is no more...