Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar Garand M-1 (adopted in 1936), weighs a pound less (8.7 Ibs.), has a 20-round magazine (v. 8 rounds), fires 7.62-mm. NATO ammunition, which is smaller and lighter than the old .30-cal. ammo. Gone: the bayonet. Interchange of barrels makes the M-15, automatic version of the M-14, almost 7 Ibs. lighter than the Browning Automatic Rifle...
...latest in the Brattle's series of Bogart thrillers (Bogie plays the unseen, unheard Father-Confessor) is a somewhat low-budget cinema version of Thomas Mann's last novel. In The Confessions of Felix Krull, Mann presented a highly amusing account of one aspect of the Teutonic mind. His Felix Krull is a magnificently amoral charcater; his portrayal of Felix's life is exciting enough to stimulate readers to enter the Harvard confidence game...
...Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon rank with earlier Stevens' successes-Four Poster, Tea and Sympathy, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...sentimentalities, in this musical adaptation of the 1868 novel. The cast is not so much well-rounded as well-scattered: the Met's Rise Stevens as Marmee, toothy Comedienne Jeannie Carson as Jo, grown-up Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien as Beth (who will not die in this version...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Comedian Jack Carson, who snapped to dramatic attention as Gooper in the movie version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, plays a reserve officer, retreaded for the Korean war, involved in a bitter tangle with a martinet colonel...