Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong toe. For more than two weeks, the company, on its third visit to Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 21), staged some familiar oldtimers, but its new numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...
Devil in the Flesh owes much of its power as well to the direction of Claude Autan-Lara, which heightens the drama of the tale without sacrificing its subtlety. Even in contrasting the joy of the Armistice with the pathos of the young woman's death, the film skirts mawkishness and makes the bereavement of the lover more deeply felt. But above all, the intensity of Devil in the Flesh is due to the performances of Gerard Philipe and Micheline Presle. Every expression and intonation is eloquent if the anguish of a boy struggling to cope with...
First Royalties. Last week the author of The Little Engine was no longer anonymous. Grosset & Dunlap signed a contract with Mrs. Frances M. Ford of Philadelphia, recognizing her as the author of the tale. The recognition came late: Author Ford is looking forward to celebrating her zooth birthday in March. Grosset & Dunlap will publish a new edition of The Little Engine That Could with Mrs. Ford's name on the cover, and she will receive the first royalties she ever got for her famed story...
...Author Ford, though appreciative of her cousin's efforts, has always been modest about The Little Engine. She wrote the story while working for a publisher of children's books in Philadelphia, writing advice to parents under the name "Uncle Nat." As she recalls, she wrote the tale in a letter "in answer to some questions about a child who wouldn't try." Years later a friend told her about hearing a wonderful children's story in church. "I just looked at him in amazement," says Cousin Frankie. "It was my Little Engine...
...learned his footwork as second baseman for the Spokane Ideal Laundry's semi-pro team, has a startling way of turning up in unexpected places. Moviegoers who are used to Bing as a crooner and a light comedian may be startled to find him in this poignant tale about frustrated fatherhood...