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...When Hollywood's abracadabblers find a new formula for turning celluloid into gold, they overwork it every time. For Sabrina, based on Samuel Taylor's Broadway hit, Paramount's magicians used the same elements that mixed so well in Roman Holiday: Actress Audrey Hepburn, Director Billy Wilder, a switch on the old Cinderella story. Gold, in a word, is guaranteed at the boxoffice, and this is never less than glittering entertainment, but somehow a certain measure of lead has found its way into the formula...
...WILDER SHORES OF LOVE (332 pp.) -Lesley Blanch-Simon & Schuster...
Author Blanch is no pale sociologist; a onetime staffer on the British Vogue, she has an interest in career-woman feminism and an addiction to headlong prose. The value of The Wilder Shores of Love is not in its arguments and conclusions, but in the case histories it presents of four 19th century women who turned their backs on the progressive West and found salvation in the unemancipated East. All four of them, says Author Blanch, "seemed to sense in ... passivity far larger opportunities of self-expression." The four...
With his subject and presentation, Thomas was bound to run against comparisons with Wilder's Our Town. The telling difference between the two plays is stylistic. Wilder took very real people taking a plain, often drab language. He enobled the New Englanders by showing their stoic but feeling response to disaster and death. Thomas has limited his action, and he must depend on speech for interpretation. As in a medieval morality play, his people are labeled and formularized, the baker is named Dai Bread, the trollop is Polly Garter. Many characters then become only undistinguished white keys upon which Thomas...
...hole of the screen, but it is a much more entertaining try. The trouble with Danny Kaye as a movie comedian is that his humor is almost too graphic to photograph. Give him the wide-open spaces of a theater stage and like the prairie flower, he keeps growing wilder every hour. But confine him to the camera's cold, Technicolored eye and take away the living audience that gives him his reason for spreeing. and Kaye is not much better than his material - which is generally pretty good...