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...John Wayne's forthcoming African epic, Hatari, Heroine Elsa Martinelli leads three baby elephants, trunk to tail, to a jungle water hole, then back up a hill to a camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...
Someone in the crowd bawled: "How 'bout daily doubles?" but Russin plunged on, revealing that Sonita's trunk measures eight feet. This caused another member of the audience to ask: "What are her other measurements?" Most of Russin's reply was drowned out by laughter, but the audience did hear that she is not married and cheered lustily...
...health too." Galbraith, who issued the original invitation last November, had to change signals diplomatically all around India. The Maharajah of Mysore, for example, stopped the training of an elephant that was to put a garland of flowers around the First Lady's neck with its trunk. Back to their stalls went the maharajah's performing horses...
...eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more leg room and trunk space than the Volkswagen. Price: around...
...year 1903 when Mondrian, then 31, was painting the common sights of his native Holland -houses and windmills, rivers and canals. As the years passed, Mondrian began to strip awyay the outer layers of nature to reveal its skeletal geometry. A tree was not made up of a trunk and branches but of horizontals and verticals. When Mondrian painted a flower, he was primarily interested in its "plastic structure...