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...play is drawn from three chapters in the Book of Judges. The Israelites are in the toils of a false god, Baal, and harsh enemies, the Midianites. The Angel of the Lord (Fredric March) appears before Gideon (Douglas Campbell) and hails him as a "mighty man of valor" chosen to lead his people to victory. The comic incongruity of the choice is heightened by Gideon's initial appearance as a kind of donkeyfied village dolt. The Angel, who is, in effect, the Lord, lays down a plan by which 300 Israelites will rout and slay 120,000 Midianites...
...second only to the Trinity. But her husband, Joseph, who apparently died before Christ began his ministry, is a forgotten man, fleetingly celebrated as a good carpenter and notably understanding husband. Though the Gospel of Matthew accords Joseph rather than Mary the honor of hearing the Annunciation from the angel of the Lord, St. Joseph is not even named in the liturgy of the Mass, which so honors 27 other saints. Last week a widespread campaign was under way to remedy this omission; sent to every Catholic prelate in the world was a pamphlet marshaling the arguments for St. Joseph...
Director Nicholas Ray makes few positive contributions. With his customary penchant for the pretentious (Johnny Guitar), he slushes up the sound track with angel voices-all, as usual, soprano, apparently on the theory that only girls are nice enough to be angels: he fancy-pants around with his camera in a ludicrous gilt-plaster palace that looks as if it were made of baroque-candy; and he ever-so-reverently overdresses his hovel scenes till they gloom and glow like cheap reproductions of Murillo...
...draw two Dutchmen convicted in Kiev as spies, beneath a bed occupied by a snoozing Khrushchev. Most of the paper's 70,000 subscribers are delighted with Behrendt's daring lance work-with one notable and royal exception. In 1959, after Behrendt showed Khrushchev changing from angel to devil and back again, former Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, horrified at what she considered sacrilege, canceled her subscription...
...Angel Island Publications in Sausalito, California, has sophisticated ideas about literature which may or may not prove solvent. As well as publishing Contact Magazine, a quarterly collection of new writing, art, and ideas, Angel has brought out in paperback a collection of pieces from the Western Review, a photographic essay entitled I Am A Lover, and a study of a city called Chicago: City On The Make...