Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). Prince Valiant (1954), with Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Sterling Hayden, Victor McLaglen, Brian Aherne, plus James Mason as the Black Knight...
...word and deed the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom...
Brandt's degree came as no surprise after his October lectures on "The Ordeal of Coexistence." In today's ceremony Pusey appropriately called him "the valiant and unflagging defender, for us all, of an outpost of freedom...
...production's theatrical weakness, not its financial failure, is the real shame. Anne Bancroft contributes a valiant performance, and Eric Bentley's revised translation is more smooth and idiomatic than his previous efforts (while avoiding the Runyanesque inaccuracy of Blitzstein's Threepenny Opera). The least known of Brecht's musical collaborators, Paul Dessau, successfully broadens the tradition of Weill, Hindemith and Eisler. Unfortunately, the modified orchestra blares his tunes over Miss Bancroft's not-brassy-enough voice...
Lafayette focuses on the 19-year-old Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, who makes things unpleasant for the British from Brandywine to Yorktown. Michel Le Royer plays the teen-age major general as a cross between Nelson Eddy and Prince Valiant; he wears a blond pageboy bob and glow-in-the-dark dentures, while everyone else has a blue-rinsed peruke. The sets are reminiscent of Agincourt: Washington's headquarters is a cluster of pretty round tents with scalloped tops and silk banners snapping in the breeze. For Lafayette's triumphal farewell...