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...Heir Huntington Hartford's stage adaptation is Jane Eyre virtually without Jane, and chunks of the story with no hint of the storytelling. Everything stagiest about the book-the gruffly romantic hero, the pasteboard aristocrats, the burning of Thornfield, the blinding of Rochester-has been transferred to the stage; what results, not unnaturally, suggests the stage of 1870. Everything personally intense and imaginative has vanished; something crucial-the time element that shapes crises and aids credibility-has been destroyed. For an act, as the emotional furniture is set in place in Designer Ben Edwards' gloomy, fan-vaulted hall...
...bitten to death by a shark. After his funeral, Ahmang avenges this mishap by killing the shark with a knife. Samarang is a silent picture, with musical accompaniment. It is pleasing scenically and photographically. In the inevitable fight-between an octopus and a shark-the shark wins. The stagiest shot is the one that was really most dangerous to make-a python coiling around a native who had been directed to yelp when the coil grew uncomfortably tight. Instead of yelping, the native fainted, had to be rescued by four of his confreres. Sai-Yu, who watched the python shooting...
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