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...about it, but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history. The camera and microphone etched the old cockiness and the saber-toothed campaigning technique as well as it caught the homespun simplicity and twinkling humor. Thanks partly to skilled editing, but mostly to its star's sheer self...
Tiger at the Gates (translated from the French of Jean Giraudoux by Christopher Fry) brought early distinction to the 1955-56 season. Just how good an orthodox play is this sunburst of dialectics and wit may be open to question; beyond question the play exhibits the elegance, the light-fingered thoughtfulness, the ironic lyricism of the most civilized playwright of the era between the wars. And Christopher Fry's translation not only does brilliantly by the play but may even be Fry's solidest writing for the theater...
...music followed the text with the eagerness of a revenue officer: now glorious in a joyous sunburst at the words "United States," now pinched at the mention of old age, now prattling giddily about estimated taxes and exemptions. A quintet reached heights of eloquence as it dwelt antiphonally on the words: "You can deduct your mother-in-law," only to be interrupted by the full chorus in a biting "But!", which led into more fine print, misterioso...
Modern French art is still dominated by the names of the aging masters whose talents made the early decades of this century a brilliant sunburst in art history. But what about the new generation that has grown up in the afterglow? To find out who they are, Critic Georges Charensol asked key artists, museum directors, collectors and critics to name the top painters who have come into their own since the liberation of France. The list of the top ten,* published in the current Connaissance des Arts, adds up to not much more than a workmanlike junior varsity of artists...
...making luncheon talk, Cinemactor Robert (Knights of the Round Table) Taylor, 42, divorced in 1951 from Cinemactress Barbara Stanwyck, announced that he would marry the beautiful lady at the same table, German Cinemactress Ursula (Monsoon) Thiess, 29. Ursula was photographed looking properly demure before Taylor slipped an outsize diamond sunburst engagement ring on her finger...