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...happy formula. They've developed their own style of mixing a touch of satire for the grown-ups with a touch of honest make-believe for the children, and each production is distinctive for which of the two out-performs the other. While in both book and direction The Wizard of Oz offers some off-hand humor, its charm chiefly will attract the young fry. Five, discounting the HDC, attended last night's opening...
...this treasure-trove was a proud, bantam-sized Catalan who exploded onto the political scene in 1901 as founder of a Catalan regionalist party, rose to fame as an ardent spokesman for Catalonian autonomy. Hand in hand with Cambo's political success went his reputation as a financial wizard and "the Andrew Mellon of Spain." When Cambo's political party went down to defeat at the polls on the verge of Spain's civil war, Cambo wisely decamped, ended up in Buenos Aires, where he lived handsomely on the returns of his insurance and electric companies...
...President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, since then has devoted much of his time to activities such as getting the U.S. guided-missile program off the ground (TIME, Jan. 30). Another change at Chrysler: F. W. Misch, 50, vice president, will move up to corporation finance officer, succeeding Financial Wizard George W. Troost, 53, Chrysler's No. 2 man, who died last week after a brain operation...
...keeping with its Arabian-Nights locale, the picture has a highly improbable plot about a poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately...
...mortal danger from a frightful bore. As things turn out, the script is not referring to Lana-just some wild pig. So the boar gores, but the gore bores, and the only consolation is offered by Sir Cedric Hardwicke, who is all dressed up like a wizard and looks sorry he did it, even for all that money. "What will be," says Sir Cedric mysteriously, "will...