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...U.P.A. has been trying to break away from such familiar Disneyisms as animal slapstick for its own sake, careful airbrushing to give figures the illusion of three dimensions, painstaking imitation of live movement. In their latest short, already delighting moviegoers at Manhattan's Paris Theater, the U.P.A. craftsmen make a clean break...
...ablest craftsmen in this modest vein is 32-year-old, Sussex-born P. H. (for Percy Howard) Newby, who is little known in the U.S., but highly regarded at home. His new novel, The Young May Moon, is so neatly constructed and so quietly effective in the flow of its prose that until the very end it seems more substantial than it actually...
Died. Frederick Ridgely Torrence, 75, poet (Hesperides) and playwright (Plays for a Negro Theatre), whose rare, carefully polished verses made him a reputation as one of the best craftsmen among 20th Century U.S. poets; in Manhattan. Fellow Poet Robert Frost wrote in A Passing Glimpse: To Ridgely Torrence, On Last Looking into His "Hesperides...
...named Scripter-Director John Huston (for MGM's The Asphalt Jungle), and as best actor, Alec Guinness (for his eight-ply role in the British Kind Hearts and Coronets). The best foreign movie, according to the board, was The Titan, a Swiss-photographed art film, re-edited by craftsmen in the U.S., starring the works of Michelangelo. The New York Critics gave the foreign-film laurels to the Pagnol-Renoir-Rossellini omnibus Ways of Love...
...Titan. A Swiss documentary, reworked by U.S. film craftsmen into a brilliant tour de force which uses art treasures, Italian backgrounds, sound effects and narration to recreate the work, life and times of Michelangelo (TIME...