Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Art," and especially of the reproduction of Cowherd, I am prompted to send you the following quotation from a poem by Tu Fu (712 to 770 A.D.) concerning Han Kan, the T'ang Dynasty painter of Cowherd. The poem, A Song of a Painting (in my English version* from the literal English text of Kiang Kang-hu), is addressed to General Ts'ao, who was a painter of war horses preceding Han Kan. Tu Fu, easily one of China's greatest poets, would apparently not have agreed with your estimate of Han Kan as being "China...
...enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like Being in Love, clowns through a rubber-faced Love for Sale. Her most effective number. Mountain High, Valley Low, stops the whispers and the tinkle of ice for a time before the dim red lights...
Members of the Faculty will be asked to vote on three motions of the Committee on Educational Policy representing, in effect, a toned-down version of the Visual Arts Committee's Report, which was made public last year...
...Cannes Film Festival made news with its film entries rather than with the spectacle of unknown starlets baring things for the photographers. The festival's French judges had mixed feelings about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of Columnist Robert Ruark's Something of Value. Reason: Something is some affront to most Frenchmen; its story of British colonialism's bitter fruit in Kenya unhappily resembles France's current gory predicament in Algeria. M-G-M unhappily scratched this entry. Most sensational movie shown in Cannes was the Soviet Union's The Forty-First, marking...
...marvelously adaptable to the screen because his writing leaves a great deal to the imagination, and when poorly acted seems quite shallow. But his moving novel about Loyalist cloak-and-dagger activity in the Spanish Civil War is turned into a second rate horse-opera in this version. Nothing is missing, from the hero's inevitable "Well, I never had much time for women" to snipers tumbling from pinnacles by the dozen...