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Sixth Century Constantinople (The Female, by Paul I. Wellman; Doubleday). One more version of the fascinating story of Theodora, the clever charmer who rose from a harlot in the Street of Women to become Justinian's wife and empress of the Byzantine Empire. Full of dancing girls, whores, eunuchs and Byzantine VIPs...
Island in the Sky (Warner) opens with a crash landing in the frozen Canadian North and closes, naturally enough, with the rescue of the survivors. Based on a novel by Ernest Gann, the film gives Director William (Battleground) Wellman a fine documentary chance to explore the hazards of arctic flying and to train his camera on a bleak but beautiful terrain (the picture was made, not in Labrador, but in the Donner Lake region of northern California). What slows things down is the high-blown rhetoric of the script, the tediously familiar characterizations of the flyers, and the endless invisible...
...picture fills the eye with the grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free-for-all, shots of horses charging and churning through mountain snowdrifts, and the unsqueamish thunk of arrows hitting human hide...
Taking the ball on their own 41, the Yardlings marched all the way to the Worcester four on the running of George McDonald and Paul Murphy and in apportions 18 yard roughing penalty. Here, however, Worcester's Don Wellman broke through to spill Frank White for an 11 Yard loss, and the only real freshman threat had failed...
Born. To William Wellman, 55, Hollywood producer-director (Nothing Sacred), and Fourth Wife Dorothy Coonan Wellman, 37: their seventh child, fourth daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Margaret Seven Wellman. Weight...