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...thirty-five member group including six countertenors and ten boy choristers from New York's Little Church Around the Corner. The instrumental section consisted of two sackbuts, a shawm and a cornetto. This ensemble produced a terribly impressive, almost ethereal range of tonal coloring that perfectly suited the spiritual splendor of the programme...
Natalie Wood has every reason to feel exhilarated: at 23, she is just about the raciest filly to come down the Hollywood sound track since Liz Taylor. Her new pictures, both slated for mid-October release, are Splendor in the Grass, a bitter harvest of frustration and failure written by William Inge and directed by Elia Kazan, and West Side Story, the widescreen, cinema version of the Broadway musical tragedy, in which Natalie enacts the poignant role of Maria with a carefully coached Puerto Rican accent and dubbed-in songs...
...undergoing psychoanalysis, and reading Freud. And she is enmeshed in one of the most complicated problems in romantic geometry in Hollywood's long history. In the current quadrangle (the old eternal triangle is from squaresville), Natalie's most attentive admirer is Warren Beatty, her leading man in Splendor, who was long the fiance of Britain's Joan Collins. Joan, in turn, is the current inamorata of Wagner, who is also a good friend of Warren...
Last week Natalie was on "leave of absence" from her studio until she tidied up her marital and household affairs. War ner came up with a new gimmick to herald Splendor-a special one-day showing "to allow time for the film to be discussed, to be highly praised or hotly attacked" four weeks in advance of its regular release...
...herself, Natalie can hardly wait. She fervently hopes that Splendor will at last wipe out the image of the child star that still lingers on among TV viewers of her old movies, which are still running on the late, late shows. Says she: "Those things haunt me. People are always bugging me by saying 'My, how you have grown!' You'd think they expected me to stay seven years old." But her anxiety is needless. As any studio executive or reader of the gossip columns could have told them, Nat is a big girl in Hollywood...