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...minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the Balzac tale-a bedroom farce given the Grand Guignol treatment- about a wife who hastily conceals her lover in a closet, swears to her husband there is no one there, and then stands by in helpless horror as the husband has the closet bricked up. While much of the original's strength...
Most of the film's difficulties derive from the attempt to squeeze the distintegration of a deep and powerful personality into eighty minutes. The picture still manages to be a spine tingler...
...Campanella, whose impish, pudgy pan grins at you from the cover of a current magazine noted for its jinxing powers, today hammered the hex into the left-field bleachers with two down and two on in the ninth to give the Brooks an 11-10 tingler...
Already elected to the new committee are Loyd Tingler of V-12, Eliot House, and Gallatin, Missouri; Frederick J. Carpenter of V-12, Eliot House, and Paterson, New Jersey; Rodney B. Perkins of V.12, Eliot House, and Brookline; Robert E. Philpot of V-12, Kirkland House, and Searsdale, New York; W. L. Jack Edwards of Adams House and Dallas, Texas; Stephen D. Becker of Adams House and Yonkers, New York; William Murphy and Robert W. Mullins of Dudley, the commuters' center; Victor J. Critchlow of Dunster House and Portland, Oregon; and Nathan Weston of Dunster House and Cambridge...
Saturday's 6-5 victory over the Portsmouth artillery team, with Moe Berg winning his third in a row in extra innings, was an old time spine-tingler. Duckie Drake broke up the ball game in the tenth when, with one away and Jim Gallagher leading off first, he came through with the game's longest blow, a triple over the left fielder's head...