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Vaughn Williams: Flos Campi (Francis Tursi, viola; Cornell A Cappella Chorus; orchestra conducted by Robert Hull; Concert Hall). An attractive musical evocation of The Song of Solomon, in which the viola's alto voice sings of Oriental love with considerable dark passion, while the chorus sings wordless syllables...
...behind a wall of silence: they communicate with each other by telephonic signals and by notes written on the back of cigarette wrappers. The only time Milland himself opens his mouth is when he breaks down and sobs during the strain of the chase. But though the picture is wordless, it is not actually silent. It has a rich, sometimes overemphatic musical score. And it has all sorts of literal sound effects: the click of a microfilm camera, the rustle of papers, the jangle of telephones, the blare of radios, opening & closing doors. Unfortunately, Director Russell Rouse (who also...
...picture opens with young Francis and his twelve disciples returning to Umbria in 1209 after receiving the Pope's blessing for their work. A succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody...
...From Washington to Peking as New Ambassador to Red China-Alexander S. Panyushkin, 47, the wordless wonder who has represented Moscow in Washington since late...
...rear of his car and set forth. The honking stopped. Last week, as a final test, he drove through clangorous Manhattan. Even there, the sign worked. Philpot sighed with relief, and set out in his self-made zone of silence for New England, listening to bird calls and watching wordless, honkless Yankees goggle as he swept by. Philpot's sign: "Hoot Away-It's Your Ulcer...