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This Sporting Life. This English picture is brutally honest as long as it stays on the playing fields and in the locker room. But when its rugby-playing hero (Richard Harris) gets tangled in a love affair with a widow, both he and the plot become confused...
...best only seven-or eight-tenths finished; most scholars feared that the work was too personal and too fragmentary ever to be completed by another hand. But undaunted British Musicologist Deryck Cooke went ahead, fused and orchestrated the score. Without even listening to it, the composer's widow Alma emotionally vetoed publication in 1960, but last week came word that she had finally heard the tape and changed her mind. The world premiere performance will be by the London Symphony Orchestra next August; Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy has asked to conduct the U.S. premiere at the opening...
...Conspirators. After a while, Lopez came to know another park visitor who liked to feed the ducks, an elderly, Czechoslovakian-born widow named Venceslava Hanush. When Mrs. Hanush heard people at the park say that the sick or crippled ducks were going to be fed to animals at the city zoo, Lopez decided to take direct action. An old acquaintance who owns a ranch in Southern California promised to provide a home for the ducks. Lopez and Mrs. Hanush worked up a plan to gather up young or ailing ducks and transport them to the ranch. To help carry...
Disney's latest for the tired Junior Achievement executive is a version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1911 Mother Carey's Chickens, that durable story of the widow (Dorothy McGuire) and her brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...
...season are from the same tube. Situation comedies will reach a bit farther than ever. CBS offers My Favorite Martian, about a marooned Martian who gets into comic scrapes with a newspaperman. Paul Henning, creator of The Beverly Hillbillies, starts a new yokel yarn called Petticoat Junction, about a widow and three calico daughters. Burke's Law (ABC) stars a millionaire police detective who tools around in a Rolls-Royce when off duty and whips up souffle Grand Marnier for snacks. Gene Barry, who plays the flush cop, learned how to shoot when...