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...comfort simply by pressing a button, and declared: "This is really living. Modern homes have nothing on this." Her roommate, Mrs. Helen Sigmund, 26, agreed. Tired for the moment of looking through the plate-glass sliding doors at the shrub-covered hillside above Los Angeles' famed Sunset Boulevard, she simply reached up and pulled a switch. Automatically, yellow cloth curtains rippled across, closing in the room. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "We'll be spoiled rotten by the time they take us home...
Unburdened with any particular sense of the realistic or humane, Stalag 17 is a heartless jape that manages to be both lively and amusing. The sardonic talents of Producer-Director-Co-Scenarist Billy (Sunset Boulevard) Wilder are well tuned to these rather ghoulish goings on. Taking the action out of the barrack confines and into the barbed-wire compound at intervals, he has made a fluent film of the play. He has also got crisp characterizations from his cast. William Holden gives one of his quietly competent performances as a cynical G.I. Otto Preminger and Sig Ruman play comedy Nazis...
...darkness fell, they clotted along Atlantic Boulevard near the ocean, blocking traffic, emitting their distinctive cries, and sniffing the heady air of freedom. Dawn-and every subsequent dawn-brought proof that they had not been idle. Greek letters appeared on the municipal water tower, coconuts crashed through windows, a dead shark materialized in the Horizon Hotel's swimming pool, and two students were pinched for swimming in the buff. At 1 :30 on Easter morning a car driven by a boy from Ohio careened into the wrong lane and hit a girl from Missouri and a boy from Delaware...
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences meets at the Pantages Theatre tomorrow, it will-if running to form--abandon scientific selection and vote along non-artistic lines. Two years ago, to skirt a decision between All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard, the Academy chose Born Yesterday. And last year An American in Paris became the darkhorse victor over A Streetcar Named Desire, A Place in the Sun, and Death of a Salesman. Gene Kelly's technicolor crepe suzette was a fine musical comedy--it was also inferior to the other three. Also last year unpopular Marlon Brando...
When he was a 13-year-old schoolboy, a tousled Greek youngster named Nicolas Hadgikyriaco saw his first "modern" painting-a tortured Matisse street scene-in a Paris gallery. "I was terribly shocked," he remembers. "I was as shocked as if I saw a woman walking on the Boulevard de la Madeleine stripped naked." Young Nicolas soon got over his astonishment at the new art. He began to paint himself, grew up to become a pupil of the modern school and, eventually, Greece's best living painter. Last week he was in London giving the city its first good...