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Those in the gala audience who had also seen Aïda before were a good bet to side with Rudolf Bing on opening night this week. They would not even have to look around for something startling and different: the stunning new sets and costumes were designed to smack them right in the eyes...
What little fun this frail comedy offers comes not from its hard-working principals but from two supporting players: Virginia Field, playing a flip, catty blonde who exchanges hisses with Linda over McNally, and Nestor Paiva as the Mexican owner of a broken-down fishing smack, who takes a gleefully perverse delight in his own misfortunes...
...current catch of crime-expose pictures. "Raging Tide" fearlessly rips the lid off the world's slimiest racket--commercial fishing. And because this is a factual expose, it takes you right to the spot where dirty work is being done; the action takes place on a fishing smack in the Pacific...
...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...
...Television's shaggy old movies and annoying commercials are already driving people back to the movie theaters (look at the box-office figures). Said one spokesman: "They're getting tired of watching Charles Laughton, as King Henry the Eighth, tossing a chicken bone over his shoulder-smack into a singing bottle of 20th Century beer...