Word: usual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bachelor Hill, now busy with a screen version of Separate Tables that will star Rita, avidly wants "Rita to find happiness when she marries again. She has had so much unhappiness in her life" (with Oilman Edward Judson, Actor Orson Welles, Prince Aly Khan and Crooner Dick Haymes). As usual when altar-bound. Bride-to-Be Hayworth was plucky and positive: "I have never been happier in my whole life...
...Strauss's swirling, silvery tunes never sounded better. Herbert von Karajan, conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, is pliant and powerful; Singers Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Teresa Stich-Randall and Christa Ludwig are uniformly excellent. They invest their climactic closing trio with even more than its usual aching grandeur, while Otto Edelmann's Baron Ochs combines authority with the required asininity...
...banks. To Sputnik-struck hearers, he praised Russia's technical success, then won a thunder of applause with a blow for the Lord ("Beyond scientific reality there is a divine reality"). Everywhere Montini pleaded: "Come to our mission and hear us.' What are we talking about? The usual things? Yes, but do you really know them? The same old story? Yes, but better say the eternal story. Useless matters? No, useful as bread and as air itself...
Operation Mad Ball (Columbia), according to some wacky prerelease publicity, is based on the bestselling book, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Anybody who enjoyed the book had better skip the picture-as usual, Hollywood has changed the story. The new one does not end with "zymurgy." but with "clinch."' And besides, it sounds less like Webster than the Army Manual, read upside down and backwards at the top of a top kick's lungs. In short, OMB is routine regimental farce, but fast and snafurious...
HOUSE-HUNTING: "In the beginning we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working...