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Hardly on a par with other Italian imports, Anna is entertaining mainly as a vehicle for Silvana Mangano's sensuous talents. Faced with a wellworn plot and a superinposed sound track, Mangano overcomes, both, and alternatey slinks and strides her way to a fine performance...
...hour, Conductor Alfredo Antonini led his forces through Puccini's composition; there were 185 voices of the Swedish Choral Club, a 75-piece orchestra and three male soloists. Lovers of La Bohème and Tosca recognized in the youthful sacred work hints of those later sensuous operas. Listeners familiar with the composer's Manon Lescaut got a bit of a turn at the end: the peaceful Agnus Dei of the Mass was note-for-note identical with Manon's madrigal...
Conductor Fritz Reiner whipped his orchestra through a vivid and powerful performance. Most of the singing was first-rate. But the main event, the sensuous "Dance of the Seven Veils," by red-haired Ljuba Welitch, was a decided letdown. Back from Vienna for her first appearance this season, Soprano Welitch sang in a voice as electric as ever, but as she stripped herself of her veils, it became amply clear that Viennese cooking has more than agreed with her. The irreverent Daily News found her somewhat grotesque gyrations "hilariously funny . . . She bounces...
...whole thing is settled during a summer when the Shipleys are in Europe and Katharine has the children at her house in Maine. In prose that is gracious, sensuous and only occasionally selfconscious, Author Stafford deals with Katharine's emotional wrestle, the special despair of young Andrew Shipley, life in the big house, the crotchety local characters. But when Katharine is burned to death in a fireworks display, the tragedy is merely shocking, not moving. The Catherine Wheel is an exercise in literary grace, so delicate that the characters and problems it creates go up with the final fireworks...
...Rose Tattoo," in Boston for a three-week stand after a successful year on Broadway, is, if anything, a testament to the enormous emotional capacity of Tennessee Williams. It is a throbbing, sensuous drama, completely absorbed with the ecstasy of life and of living; unfortunately, however, this is not a theme conducive to a coherent plot or sensible dialogue...