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...book is again enlivened with Hirschfeld's witty caricatures (from the New York Times), and action photographs (from the files of LIFE) replace the usual static poses of publicity stills. Kronenberger notes that two of his ten best (Golden Apple and Via Flaminia) originated off-Broadway. Perhaps, he says, "the prime significance of '53-'54 will be that Broadway, just then, began to be saved (or could it have been doomed?) by off-Broadway's contributions...
...that brought forth the inner-directed man were those of production, a hard struggle with hard things: iron, coal, prairies, machinery. Invention, toil, risk-taking and a driving sense of the goal to be won were necessary to meet the mounting consumer demands of rapidly increasing populations passing from static to more fluid forms of society...
...Princeton Theological Seminary last week, 400 delegates bravely battled the heat and the static in the little receiving sets that picked up the French, German and English translations of what was going on. Whatever it was, they could be sure it was Presbyterian. The 17th General Council of the World Presbyterian Alliance, representing 40 million communicants in 46 countries, was in session. Among other accomplishments, the delegates 1) adopted a new, more centralized constitution to replace the original adopted at London in 1875, 2) gave themselves a breath-taking new name: "The Alliance of the Reformed Churches Throughout the World...
...fool-the-eye realist, Albright paints each object in the light most flattering to it. To paint the whole picture in a single light would make it "static," he believes. Another Albright idea 5 to paint different objects at different angles. He will turn the canvas upside down to paint a bottle on a bureau, then turn it sidewise to paint the bureau. At first glance, everything in his pictures seems well anchored in space; at a second glance things start spinning...
Dial M for Murder (Warner) started out in 1952 as a British television drama, moved on to long, successful runs on the London stage and Broadway, and has now been made into a first-rate movie. Director Alfred Hitchcock, by shooting the film in three-dimensional WarnerColor, avoids the static quality common to many stage plays when transferred to the screen. The 3-D is used not so much for its shock value as to bring alive for moviegoers much of the theater's intimacy and depth of movement...