Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he crossed the Rubicon? What is a Pyrrhic victory? What is the name of the three-headed dog that guarded Hades?" After that came a Latin movie about the Second Punic War, then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience rose to go-but not without a burst of applause for its hostess. "We love you, Dr. Martin," cried one Latin teacher. "Goodbye . . . Goodbye," shouted the kids...
...then, account for her success? Says Critic Kerr: "Instead of attacking a song, she inhabits one, moving around in it with such confidence, grace and honest exuberance as to make it entirely her own." So eager is the public to hear Ros and the rest of the cast that the show is playing to standing room, sold out for the next 5 weeks and orders have been taken for as far ahead as New Year's Eve. Decca Records is snowed under with 100,000 advance orders for the Wonderful Town album-a bigger advance sale than was chalked...
Joseph W. Mitchell '54 and Hugh J. Schwartzberg '53 won the 1953 Boylston Prizes last night. Mitchell recited T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," and Schwartzberg gave a selection from James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young...
...Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only won the Order of Lichtenburg (which entitles her to be called a Dame...
Niagara is, of course, a cheap picture. There is a cheap song, "Kiss," for Marilyn to breathe convulsively. And even talented Joseph Cotten gives a cheap performance as Marilyn's shabby husband. But Niagara does have its highlights; and everyone will have his own favorite scene: red dress, shower curtain, blue dress, negligee...