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...good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian's villainous henchman, suggests a demented Lionel Barrymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Lewin's passion for bringing musky literary classics to the screen. Writer-Director Lewin is responsible for movie versions of Maugham's The Moon & Sixpence and Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. His adaptation of Maupassant's coldly sardonic novel Bel Ami is his smoothest job to date. But it also clearly defines the limitations of Mr. Lewin's kind of movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 24, 1947 | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Bing Crosby Show (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). After a few rough weeks, one of the smoothest productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Attempting-and persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 25, 1946 | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Wally Flynn, 1942 Varsity letter-winner as a Freshman, will hold down one of the wings, with newcomer Johnny Florentino at the other wing. Flynn is one of the smoothest operators on the field, and in particular he helps to continue what has the making of a Harvard football: a kicking end. Wally's boots are one of the joys of practice--and the look to be one of Harvard's gametime joys as well. Florentine has never played any college football, but he was an all-scholastic center at Boston College in 1943 and was on the high-scoring...

Author: By J. ANTHONY Lewis, | Title: Lining Them Up | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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