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Covering the Waterfront. In Springfield, Mass., a woman rushed up to Edward P. Hannigan, a tourist-booth attendant, breathlessly asked for directions to all the swimming places within a ten-mile radius, explaining that she had left her children at a pond and couldn't remember which...
...season, the toughest problem is one of simple logistics: how to get singers, orchestra, engineers and equipment in the same place at the same time. Victor's chartmakers spent all winter planning recording schedules. The company transformed the Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established...
...monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand to cry "Halt...
...whole, the film compares favorably with the play. The scriptwriters, Phoebe and Henry Ephron, have added some happy touches of silly business. And though Actress Hepburn tends to wallow in the wake of Shirley Booth, who played the part on Broadway, she never quite sinks in the comic scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William...
...commenced at the southwest corner, painting in a northerly direction to the northwest corner, then easterly to the northeast corner, then southerly to the southeast corner, and then commenced painting in a westerly direction along the south wall toward the point of beginning," where he bumped into a telephone booth placed against the wall while he was at work and was struck on the head by a panel...