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...here, and Director Rossen has marshaled it with care and passion against the stern Spanish landscape. His best scenes have the faithfulness and the feeling of fine color plates in a history book-King Philip's drunken dance among the corpses at Chaeronea, the hurling of the spear into Asia, the symbolic blow at the navel of a continent when Alexander cut the Gordian knot, the sordid grandeur of Darius' doom, the murder of Cleitus in a childish...
...IRWIN SPEAR Boston...
Izett Was a Scot. To help get the research done for her weekly deadlines, Mary Ellis Peltz relies on an ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years...
...Paul Dudley White, President Eisenhower's civilian heart specialist, sailed from Los Angeles for an ocean rendezvous with some grey whale cows, now calving off the Pacific coast of Lower California. Armed with two electrode-bearing harpoons, Heart Researcher White hoped to spear the cows lightly, chart the pulses of the 50-ft. (maximum) beasts while trailing them in a dory equipped with an electrocardiograph. Asked about his most important patient. Dr. White assured newsmen: "I'll be on call for the President all the while...
...believe of Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard. It also enabled viewers to see that perfection does not stop with the stars: Sondra Lee was totally right as Tiger Lily, leader of the superbly choreographed Indians; Kathy Nolan's Wendy was witty as well as winsome, and even such spear carriers as the animals and Captain Hook's foolishly wicked crew had personality and flair...