Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: The Wrong Man. (1957) Hitchcock-directed tale from a Maxwell Anderson screen play based on a true incident involving a musician falsely accused of murder. CH.56...
...Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky. This is really music (and very good music at that), but what could be more dramatic than listening to Alan Heimert as the Devil and Kevin Starr as the Soldier? (Although Starr is evidently as good at politics as he is at teaching, his versatility presumably will not extend to playing the violin part himself.) 8:30 Sunday in the Leverett JCR. Free...
...town run by American oil interests. Suspenseful and sometimes brutal, never sentimental. 1953, Janus Film Festival. Harvard Square's festival of eminent films including Jean Renoir's best (Rules of the Game) and Sergei Eisenstein's last (Ivan the Terrible), Beauty and the Beast, Jean Cocteau's luxurious fairy tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes...
...Sweet to music hall antics like Tonight at 8:30 (with Gertrude Lawrence) from Kiplingesque tunes of glory in Cavalcade to the hilarious battle royal of the sexes, Private Lives. In the film Brief Encounter, Coward even dropped his customary mask of urbane detachment to record a tenderly poignant tale of middle-aged love...
...cited as an example the $3000 production costs for Stravinsky's "The Soldier's Tale" and Hans Warner Henze's "A Country Doctor...