Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When The Seven Deadly Sins first came to this country, some critics objected to Gluttony as mere filth. True, the story is only the retelling of a bawdy tale, but it is done so skilfully as to be delightful. Henri Vidal is riotously pompous as the traveling salesman who passes up a chance to sleep with a beautiful farmer's wife for a piece of cheesecake...
Sloth is a witty tale of the chaos brought on when everyone in the world is made lazy. Jacqueline Plessis is charming as the ingenue sent from Heaven to slow down the pace of everyday life...
...said, his eyes darting nervously around the room. "I never intended to go to China, but I figured if I played along with them, I could get information against them and then expose them to the U.S. Government and the world." Having unburdened himself of this tale, he added: "I believed Americans would be intelligent enough to understand and believe me." He was more relaxed when he shifted the subject to home. "I'll be more than happy when I get back home with my mother and father and the rest of my family," said...
...usual drawbacks. In treating of an occupation officer's experiences in an Okinawa village, Playwright Patrick has chosen a warm comedy level and stuck to it. Perhaps more crucially, Playwright Patrick, helped by able Director Robert Lewis and Scene Designer Peter Larkin, has created throughout an artificial, fairy-tale mood. Hence, though East is East and West is West, the twain meet and get along fine-for the good reason that an even more hostile twain, reality and make-believe, stay miles apart...
...first attempt to animate on the screen the characters in Thurber's cartoons. The Unicorn in the Garden-directed by Bill Hurtz of Stephen Bosustow's gifted crew at U.P.A., which has in the last two years produced Gerald McBoing-Boing, Mr. Magoo and The Tell Tale Heart-is the subtlest of the lot. The Thurber Male looks just as he always does-browbeaten by the Thurber Female, and the unicorn is so attractive that he will make Thurber fans wish Bosustow & Co. would try The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble, The Bear Who Let It Alone...