Word: waltz
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...jazz in two styles. Just as it says on the label, Bassist Williams plays it primitive, with a trio of winds and a powerhouse rhythm section which divides itself between a two-beat Calypso and a hot-blooded shuffle entirely on the cymbals. Of special interest: the polyrhythmic Venezuelan Waltz. Drummer-Vibraphonist Clemendore plays jazz a la George Shearing and includes one hit tune, Princess Charming...
...partners her with easy skill, but Alec Guinness is the man to watch-especially when he goes to bed tied up in a mustache binder. The whole cast gets plenty of help from Director Charles Vidor, who has kept the color warm, the lighting kind, and everything moving in waltz time. But Vidor got plenty of help from the man who wrote lines such as the one that Aunt Symphorosa (Estelle Winwood) once squeaks in horror. "She's going to the Black Sea," she cries, "without any breakfast...
...rapid succession, there were 1) a waltz in which boys lugged girls onstage like grainsacks, let them dance a bit, then lugged them off again; 2) a dizzy rain scene, with umbrellas flapping open and shut; 3) the "Minute" Waltz, timed by a football second hand and ending precisely at 60 seconds. Best spoof of all was the "mistake" dance: one girl or another always managed to have arms up when the rest had them down or to be facing the audience when the rest were faced about, etc.-old stuff, but done with a deadpan zip that...
Jean Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival is clearly the work of a literary stylist. It has a delicate, charming style which is something like a waltz of distinctly impressionistic orchestration. Fittingly, the plot sometimes takes a rest and the characters actually break into a dance...
...dresses are by Dior. Though Pierre Dux makes a fine Russian general, the rest of the cast is just adequately funny. Only Fresnay makes a great deal of his part, but the movie needs no more. With lots of music and love (the latter more varied) Paris Waltz is a pleasant time...