Word: trios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parked the armored truck by a fire hydrant in front of Rope's drugstore, locked the doors on a treasure of three-quarters of a million dollars, and joined the two guards at the soda counter inside. Leaving a truck unguarded is strictly against company rules, but the trio had safely sneaked coffee in Danvers many times before...
...Natwick). But when she tries to cheat her as well, Dolly flees-with a young boy cousin and a tart-tongued servant (well played by Georgia Burke)-to a tree house in a wood. It is not only a revolt against ugly materialism, but an escape from reality. The trio are joined in their tree by a judge; and the quartet sits about, lonely and lost, wishing and dreaming aloud. After some dime-novel hocus-pocus breaks in on their dream world, Dolly goes home to face reality, and her realistic sister Verena is humbled into seeking love...
Encore (Rank; Paramount] brings Somerset (Trio, Quartet) Maugham back for a merited cinematic reprise with an ex pertly packaged omnibus of three enter taining short stories: i ) The ironic Ant and the Grasshopper, in which a ne'er-do-well playboy (Nigel Patrick) marries the third richest girl in the world, buys back the family estate his hard-working brother (Roland Culver) had been forced to sell, repays Culver the ?1.300 he had borrowed, and at the last minute, true to form, cadges a fiver from him. Typical tongue-in-camera sequence: the elegant playboy, to shame his brother...
Midfield, too, suffered heavy graduate losses. Huebach, experienced Pete Brooke, and Skip (no relation) Baldwin make up a capable starting trio. The second unit, though, is green: Phil Waring, Chuck Edwards, and Todd Goodwin are all sophomores. Bill Julian, Hank Wood, and Al Sawyer form the third midfield on the travelling squad...
...Moderato for string trio by Imogene Horsley, teaching fellow in music, is a logically built work with some excellent contrapuntal passages and often lyrical melodic line. Betty Churgin's Allegretto for flute and piano consists of the episodic treatment of two recurrent themes. Because of some weak transitions, the sections seemed somewhat dis-connected--though they were skillfully worked out in themselves...