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...always, Brigitte plays a pouty fleshpot yearning for a man (Henri Vidal) who doesn't yearn back. This unlikely situation is sillier than usual because this time, besides her natural endowments, she has wealth and social position as the daughter of the "Prime Minister" of France. But Vidal, dad's Chief of Foreign Affairs, throws gravel in her face as he takes off in his car to meet his latest mistress...
...economical cars that may become the rage." One trouble with the auto industry, Slichter advised the Senate Finance Committee, is "the weird collection of headlights, fins, tails, wings, etc., that is called an automobile in 1958." Reuther agreed with a Dutch newsman who thought that U.S. cars were getting "sillier and bigger" and added: "I think the auto industry should make a car which at least could be parked in a single block...
Giant Guitar. Bellini's Norma, which Callas had chosen for her New York de but, is a second-rate work. It is a rare operatic phenomenon in that the libretto is not much sillier than the score. The story takes place during the Roman occupation of Gaul. Norma is a Druid high priestess, who, though pledged to virginity in the service of the moon goddess, has borne two children of the Roman proconsul. When he casts her off for another Druid priestess, Norma arouses the local underground against him. But in the end she repents, publicly confesses her sins...
...Gaby (which is distantly related to Waterloo Bridge, a 1930 melodrama by the late Robert Sherwood). Actress Caron has to do all these things and something even sillier. She plays a French ballet dancer who is too prim to succumb to the man she loves, though they are engaged to be married and he is about to go into battle. Later on, she refuses to marry him because, during a period when she thought him dead, she had not refused other men. After watching Actor Kerr (who played the schoolboy falsely accused of homosexuality in Broadway...
Macdonald errs once more when he concludes that a big expenditure, and the additional victories which might result therefrom, would constitute a showing reflecting credit on the U.S. He could scarcely be more inaccurate. Nothing has appeared sillier than recent press and public relations attempts to interpret every East-West sports decision as an indication of the supremacy or inherent weakness of capitalism or communism...