Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actors were generally only slightly less than adequate. Frederick Blais as the father, and head of the Stanhope family, suffered most from this failing and played his part on too high a level from the beginning. This left him no room for growth of emotional intensity in the final scene, where he finally resorted to uncontrolled hysteria. Richard Knowles as the reporter managed by his tone and facial expressions to disguise the fact that the reporter is not a slimy busybody but a spiritual successor to Alison. Probably the best performance of the evening was given by Karen Johnson...
...holocaust that followed, help came quickly and heroically from U.S. servicemen. A marine rushed through a solid wall of flame to rescue a little girl. Others made a firebreak to contain the flames. A thousand servicemen swarmed to the scene, clawed through hot rubble with their bare hands. Twenty-five helicopters shuttled the injured to hospitals. A jet plane flew in from Japan with 35,000 units of tetanus serum to combat infection. Claims commissioners, given orders to "cut all red tape," quickly went to work compensating families for destroyed property. Shelter was found for the homeless. But, despite...
...Director Herbert Graf altered all references to California to read Colorado, hired Soprano Eleanor Steber to sing the role of Minnie the barkeep. To help fill his cavernous outdoor stage, he hired a covered wagon and a troupe of horses from a 4-H club. And to avoid frequent scene changes, he transferred the action in Acts I and III to the outside of the Polka saloon, constructed a typical Hollywood false-front street-all of it heavily anchored down to prevent the set from blowing away in the waspish mountain winds that swirl into the amphitheater every evening...
...four-day effort last week included the usual quota of afternoon and evening concerts at the city-owned ball field, plus a series of "breakfast seminars" conducted by scholars on such hip topics as "The Role of Jazz in American Culture." New to the scene was a pair of Russian wolfhounds representing Wolfschmidt vodka, and a "fashion-jazz spectacular" titled "Newport Is a Lark" and featuring such jazz-inspired fashions as a Bop Period "nasturtium-colored velveteen jacket lined and piped with hot pink shantung." Musical novelty: the "first authentic American jazz ballet," a 22-minute retelling of the Harlequin...
Anatomy of a Murder (Carlyle Productions; Columbia), based on the 1958 bestseller by Robert T raver (pen name of Justice John D. Voelker of the Michigan Supreme Court), is a courtroom melodrama that seems less concerned with murder than with anatomy. In scene after scene, the customers are bombarded with such no-nonsense words as "intercourse . . . contraceptive . . . spermatogenesis . . . sexual climax." And even the least barkbound of spectators may find himself startled to see and hear, in his neighborhood movie house, extended discussion of what constitutes rape ("Violation is sufficient; there need not be a completion ... on the part...