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HAVANA, Cuba, Dec. 15--A tourist supposedly vacationing in the scenic Sierra Maestra Mountains was captured today and exposed as a Yankee imperialist spy while distributing counter-revolutionary propaganda under the guise of humor...
...Life (book by Fay and Michael Kanin; music and lyrics by Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz) is one of those musicals that seem to spring from back numbers of the National Geographic. It is full of scenic wonders-a Carlsbad spa with fountains spouting real water, a Christmas vision of Old Vienna filigreed in confectioner's icing, a wedding extravaganza such as only Broadway angels can afford. In and about these Oliver Smith settings cavort the Wiener Burger, garbed by Lucinda Ballard in resplendent turn-of-the-century costumes. Unfortunately, there is little more to this comic operetta than...
...team of Andrew and Virginia Stone (Cry Terror) keeps a hot tempo. After junking the car, the four sprint through a "dense and umbrageous forest" of Douglas fir, and the sheriff's gun changes hands at least three more times. One hood tumbles to his death from a scenic precipice; the steely moll turns to mush under Janssen's Gableish charms; the other hood, played by Actor-Comic Frank (Bells Are Ringing) Gorshin, gets his in a forest fire...
...seminars in key European cities to brief travel agents on how to sell tourists on the U.S. Air France has launched an intensive "Visit U.S.A." advertising campaign, has handed out more than 100,000 handsome color brochures of the U.S. British Overseas Airways Corp. is making a movie of scenic spots in the U.S. that it intends to distribute throughout the free world...
Like the Romantics, he loved the poetic landscape. He describes with glee many cold mornings spent waiting for sunrise in some scenic spot. He tells of the melancholy overtones of classic ruins with a genuine excitement. He did not merely repeat the noble sentiment of the Romantics, he definitely experienced it himself. With his stirring prose, he makes the enjoyment of a grand vista a thrilling event and a worthy ideal...