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...unique style, toying with a melody, avoiding sentimentality in the ballads, and introducing jazz idioms. Miss O'Day became hugely popular. Columbia has reissued on LP the original sides she made with Gene Krupa's band, and they preserve their offbeat charm. Listen to the almost wordless "That's What You Think," and you'll realize that Anita is one of the great...
Rififi (UMPO) contains a 30-minute stretch of wordless moviemaking that is one of the most engrossing sequences since the invention of talking pictures. A band of four international thieves plans the burglary of a Parisian jewelry store. They carefully case the shop, study the routine of the night watchman and other inhabitants of the block, buy an identical burglary alarm and painstakingly devise the best means of silencing...
...brilliant achievement, owing in part to the fact that Welles knows how to make the most of the movie medium as a valid and unique art form. No-one but Welles would have devised, following the lead of the ancient Greek exodos, the grandly impressive (and wordless) epilogue, within which the story itself is a flashback--thereby imparting a new form and focus to the finished product. No-one but Welles could have thought up the settings for the drunken brawl and the killing of Roderigo. Welles' direction and camera work are virtuosic throughout: his untiring inventiveness is ever apparent...
Unknown and unheralded in the U.S., French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, 32, opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...
...Club, he swapped pleasantries with Dizzy Dean, and gave Bob Hope an impromptu lesson on how to drive a golf ball. After the comedian had shanked a ball off the fairway, Ike grabbed his driver and cleanly smacked a drive 225 yards down the center, then gave Hope a wordless, that's-how-it's-done look...