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...Manhattan last week, the movies were making opera seductively easy to take. In Sol Hurok's Aida (see CINEMA), the young, beautiful Ethiopian slave girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French...
Edith Steinberg, in a not too difficult role, strikes the mean for this production and is most able, but without real distinction. And just a cut below Miss Steinberg, but in considerably less difficult or lengthy roles, are Mary Crocker and Sol Schwade. The rest of the cast is less able, below the generally high standard, and lacking the extenuation of playing tough parts. However, only Theodore von Kamecke, III, who is asked to play a man considerably older than his own age, with just some talcum in his hair for support, seems actually to drag...
Last week the ape "man's indefatigable mentor, Producer Sol Lesser, announced that he had signed a new Tarzan. The find: Gordon Scott, 26, a lifeguard at Las Vegas' Sahara Hotel. His qualifications: 6 ft. 3 in., 215 lbs., a So-in. chest, a 30-in. waist and a catlike walk...
Next morning 4,000 university students marched in grim silence to the Puerta del Sol in front of the police head quarters building. There, squatting on the pavement to foil any police charge to disperse them, they shouted, "Down with the armed police," "Murderers." Officials anxiously telephoned for instructions...
Then police got their orders. Mounted cops charged the crowd; pistols were fired over heads. By nightfall, more than 100 men lay in Puerta del Sol's damp cells...