Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Martinu: Sonata for Piano and Flute (George Reeves and Rene Le Roy; EMS, 1 side LP). Melodic inspiration (vintage 1945) and superior performances make this attractive listening. The more astringent Martinu - and some spectacular pianism-are on the other side, where Charles Rosen plays five short studies and polkas and a longer work, Les Ritournelles. Recording: good...
This French pastry has been served up with a rich helping of Technicolored spectacle as well as a good bit of overly rich dialogue and direction. The action includes a number of chases on horseback and a spectacular dueling scene in a candlelit Parisian theater, with Ferrer and Granger bounding from balcony boxes to backstage. Ferrer makes a smartly menacing Marquis, and Granger is a fine, swashbuckling figure, although he suggests little of that "gift of laughter" of which Sabatini wrote. Also on hand, in a minor role: Lewis Stone, now 72, who played the villainous Marquis to Ramon Novarro...
Much of the credit, however, goes to Screenwriter Herman T. Mankiewicz, whose snappy dialogue and mastery of the Ozark idiom puts over the story. The plot it self is not spectacular. It follows Dean's career with St. Louis, reaching a climax in his disastrous arm injury, and leveling off with his transfer to the Chicago Cubs and final post as a baseball announcer. Though The Pride of St. Louis is basically another Stratton Story, Mankiewicz and Dailey have turned the Dean legend into a good movie in its own right...
...took a spectacular finish for the varsity baseball team to beat Tufts in the thirteenth inning Thursday, and it will be even more dramatic if the team can toppie Holy Cross at Worcester today...
Only a great catch by Smith in the tenth inning saved the Crimson from losing. Smith raced far to his right to pull in Fettig's line drive. Bennett then smashed a double that would have brought in the deciding run save for the spectacular catch...