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Lodestoned. In Providence, ten months after he gave himself up at police headquarters, turned in a utility truck he had stolen while on a binge in a Boston suburb, Ed R. Silva took on another skinful, showed up at the station with a taxicab he had liberated in Boston, offered an explanation: "I like the Providence cops...
...owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance by his wife's refusal to consumate the marriage, Mieghan takes his revenge on the world by burning down the Syndicate-owned gin which has put him out of business. At that point, the competition, in the form of Silva Vacarro, the Sicilian manager of the Syndicate, moves in. Vacarro gets his revenge by seducing Baby Doll. While this story is not particularly attractive, it contains no pornography, either in the situation itself or in the way it is photographed. The playwright's declared purpose is to show corruption...
...this tender story was revived by a Spanish author, José Maria Sanchez-Silva, in the form of a novel not yet published in the U.S. Now it has been converted by Ladislao Vajda, a Hungarian director working in Spain, into a film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise...
...plinkety-plunk was here to stay for a while. They are sure now. Banjos have been invading TV- notably on the Robert Q. Lewis Show and the Canada Dry commercials. Harvard and M.I.T. students have formed banjo groups, and the University of Wisconsin has hired Virtuoso José Silva to play a "History of the Banjo" series in the fall...
...warned that the professionals would kill the goose because they banged out nothing but noisy chords," he says. "Today, the professionals do more than that -they do filigree work, background and single-string playing that bring out the undeveloped qualities of the instrument." Concert Banjoist José Silva, whose educated banjo can romp through complicated pieces like the Hungarian Rhapsody and Poet and Peasant, loves his instrument for its warm humanity-about as far from the denatured ickiness of an electric guitar as he can get. "The banjo is a wild thing," he says. "You stroke it wildly, and that...