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...stands now, her conversion is one of the most absurd scenes ever filmed. Having at last gotten the money needed to leave her husband and the village, she is seen the next moment charging up toward the very mouth of the volcano whose rumblings have terrified her till now. Just what is going on as she plunges upward through the smoke remains unknown to the audience until the narrator's voice booms forth to explain that Karen has found God and will now return to live out her life in the fishing village. With the climax reduced to the incomprehensible...

Author: By Daniel B. Jacobs, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/18/1950 | See Source »

...ballet; but the new engagement had promise. It included among its wares The Corn Is Green and The Devil's Disciple. It could boast of Maurice Evans as its boss. It had a lot of well-known actors on its roster, an advance of $130,000 in its till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...Then everyone was all optimism, inevitable progress still enjoyed some degree of credibility, and the millennium had almost arrived. Man, while not still center of the universe, yet had faith in reason and his own power finally to wrest control of nature from those forces which had remained mysterious till then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lost Illusions | 1/5/1950 | See Source »

When shaggy-haired William Alexander Bustamante tours the Jamaican countryside, field hands from the cane and banana plantations crowd around him singing a native song called We Will Follow-Bustamante Till We Die. Last week it was clear that the chorused pledge was something more than a catchy calypso lyric. In the British island's general election, Bustamante and his Labor Party squeezed back into power for a second five-year term. It was Bustamante's faithful plantation workers, overpowering the heavy urban vote rolled up by the rival socialist People's National Party, who saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAMAICA: Busfa Wins Again | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Helena Braun had dashed down to the Met, tried on a costume, had a few quick, calming words with Wagnerian Conductor Fritz Stiedry and got herself a membership in the American Guild of Musical Artists. Then she went home to rest till curtain time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ganz Gut | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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