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SHIP OF FOOLS. This flashy popular melodrama by Producer-Director Stanley Kramer out of Novelist Katherine Anne Porter's mordant allegory concerns a German vessel bound from Veracruz to Bremerhaven during the early 1930s. Despite the Meaningful Dialogue they have to spout, Vivien Leigh, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret and Oskar Werner provide fast company for the long haul...
Ship of Fools. In her mordant 1962 bestseller, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter unsparingly scrutinized what she described as "the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...
Szigeti's reason for choosing the violin as his vessel is "the irrational pleasure that communication gives: communication that transcends the barriers of language, of nationality, of race." And he feels that other performers are attracted to the arduous profession for the same reason. Szigeti was made conscious of the rigors of communication because he had to translate everything from the relatively useless Hungarian of his youth. For him, the translation from written notes to sounds is entirely analogous. And it allows him to communicate with whomever he encounters en chemin...
Since then he has gathered the largest such collection in the U.S. One figure, a beautifully preserved Peruvian drinking vessel, has a black-spotted face, black hands, a lip partially eaten away -symptoms of leprosy. Others lie on hospital beds, held down by restraining bonds as if they had a violent illness. Some seem to show the ravages of smallpox, cancer, dropsy, malnutrition, and give evidence of impressive achievements in techniques of amputation and other surgery a thousand years before Columbus. Pregnancy, an annual event, is portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl...
...students enrolled in the Navy's college ROTC program must take at least one summer cruise aboard a Naval vessel. At Harvard, about half of the midshipmen taking cruises in a given summer are assigned to ships visiting European or Far Eastern ports...