Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...symphony, and opera splits into three long movements. There are a few dull passages, but most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). The Metropolitan Opera's new English version of La Bohème, with Conner, Sullivan, Guarrera...
...final version, she couldn't have looked prettier to Paramount tycoons if she had been fitted with Lana Turner's head. When Paramount's advertising director saw the finished product in Manhattan he turned to his secretary and bade her take a wire to Producer Irving Asher in Hollywood. "Say this " he instructed. "This girl is Miss Crosby! Don't let anybody teach...
...Little World of Don Camillo. A film version of Giovannino Guareschi's bestselling novel about a militant parish priest and a Communist mayor; with France's Fernandel, Italy's Gino Cervi (TIME...
After a twelve-week warmup, the bare-stage version of Stephen Vincent Benét's John Brown's Body (TIME, Dec. 22) began its Broadway run last week. The show starring Judith Anderson, Tyrone Power and Raymond Massey, had already covered 14,000 miles, given 80 performances m 60 cities. Most of Manhattan's critics gave John Brown & Co. columns of raves. The dissenter: John Chapman, of the tabloid Daily News, recommended the show to those who "are looking for a nap. . . It was only duty which kept me from dozing through a large part...