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Preceded by some of the surliest advance notices ever published in the Hollywood press, an erstwhile TV star, Tennessee's mild-mannered Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, quietly moved into the movie capital last week. Sitting as a one-man Senate subcommittee on juvenile delinquency, Prober Kefauver was looking for answers to a valid question: Do sex and violence in Hollywood's product give U.S. kids bad ideas? He also wanted to know more about dirty movies, commonly shot in hotel rooms on a G-string budget. The linking of the two probes was more than Hollywood...
Conductors who can rouse both their musicians and their audiences to frenzied enthusiasm are born, not made. Few seem to be born in the U.S.* But last week in Manhattan's Town Hall one budding U.S.-born conductor had Manhattan's surliest critics holding their breaths with excitement. He was an earnest-looking, square-faced, 26-year-old Californian, Robert Shaw, and he was conducting a hastily trained chorus of 170-odd singers in a program of modern music by Manhattan's William Schuman...
...girls, however gallant, do not ride in the Grand National at Aintree. Each of these unlikely happenings occurs in Author Bagnold's "National Velvet," but so compelling is the wave of her magic wand that the surliest realist will nod and grin approval. Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three...