Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican Senator John Bricker, fear that the U.S. Constitution's treaty-making provision can be abused to violate the liberties of citizens. Bricker has proposed several amendments (TIME, July 13, 1953 et seq.) aimed at closing what he deems to be a dangerous constitutional loophole; in 1954, one version of the Bricker Amendment failed of Senate adoption by a single vote. Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting n to 2, approved and sent to the Senate for action this year a new proposed treaty amendment to the Constitution. Its sponsor of record: Illinois' Republican Senator Everett Dirksen...
...they liked about its flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything else about this movie version of the Broadway musical, it will be because they can't tell sweet from saccharine...
...word: goo. And Director Henry King has chosen to smear it pretty thickly on the screen. Goo is, of course, a major ingredient of every Hammerstein libretto, but in Oklahoma!, for instance-even in the movie version, which starred the same two singers (TIME, Oct. 24)-the sentiment was cut with a dash of comic bitters. In this production the players play it so coy that they sometimes seem close to baby talk. Actor MacRae sings pleasantly, though, and so do Shirley Jones and Robert Rounseville...
Until recently the only adequate recording of Turandot was the Cetra set which featured the electrifying singing of Gina Cigna as Turandot and the haunting Calaf of Giulio Masini. Now London has issued a beautifully recorded version that is one of their most satisfactory operatic sets. The taxing role of Turandot finds Inge Borkh lacking in the most dramatic moments, but her voice in the lyrical passages is ravishing. Renata Tebaldi has too heavy a soprano for the role of Liu, but she gives a more sustained performance than has been her wont of late. As the Calaf, Mario...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...