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Many years ago Hans Christian Anderson wrote a fairy tale about a Chinese Emperor and his golden-voiced nightingale. Jiri Trnka has taken the classic folk story and transformed it into a charming, sophisticated screen production. To compare this Czechoslovakian movie with any other would be impossible, for here is not only a fine picture, but a completely new art form in the theatre...
...Trnka, an artist and sculptor in his own right, has used but two live actors. All the other parts are played by cleverly carved wooden figurines. Using animated cartoon technique, Trnka filmed each frame of the movie separately-taking as many as twenty shots for a simple movement of an arm. The production is in Nu-Agfa color, which lends a soft, warm tone to the action...
...Emperor's Nightingale (Rembrandt Films) is the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, enacted by puppets in the soft hues of Nu-Agfa Color. Produced in Czechoslovakia by Jiri Trnka, the U.S. version keeps the original film's excellent score, adds a well-written narration by Phyllis McGinley, spoken by Boris Karloff in a Dutch-uncle mood...
Chicagoans named Jiskra, Charbulak, Recoschewitz, Pytlowski, Napolilli, Masacek, Trnka and so on were slightly aghast last week at their own temerity. They, performers in Chicago's Symphony Orchestra, had asked for higher salaries, $100 per week for regulars, $75 per week for extras and substitutes. They had been getting, respectively, $80 and $55. But, unlike the musicians of the Chicago Civic Opera (TIME, April 11), they had not obtained their demands. The patrons and managers of fine music in the city of wind and superlatives were convinced that symphonic salaries could be boosted no higher. In consequence President James...