Word: critically
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Taste of the Times. Critic Davis not only condemns the play itself, but also questions the words on which it is based-notably the words St. Matthew attributed to the Jews: "His blood be on us, and on our children." This attitude, says Davis, "has been taken as warrant, through nearly two millennia, for a series of abominable outrages against the people among whom Christianity rose." The play, he grants, falls well within Christian tradition...
...More Hatred. If Critic Davis has to probe history to attack the play itself, he does not have to go so far to fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably not the case: they were members of the Nazi Party. The play's longtime director, 70-year-old Woodcarver George Johann Lang, offers an explanation: "I was a Nazi, and I was jailed for it for two years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into...
...Suffolk-Cummings; 20th Century-Fox). "Immoral!" blustered Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, after he saw a cabaret scene from the $6,000,000 cinemusical during his visit to Hollywood (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). Encouraged by Critic Khrushchev's generous prerelease publicity and confident of the picture's substantial "production values"-Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Todd-AO, and some fulgid color photography-Fox decided to release Can-Can as a reserved-seat ($1.50-$3.50) attraction, and expects it to do as well as Gigi did on the same basis. Unhappily, many U.S. moviegoers will discover...
...done since Garbo was a girl. And last week Stockholm was looking aghast at the latest product of Bergman's imagination, a religious horror picture called The Virgin Spring (TIME, Feb. 29) that contains "the most terrible rape and murder scenes ever seen in a film." A Stockholm critic called it "Bergman's best...
...Reinhardt, Franz Jackson and his Dixieland All-Stars, a popular and authentic group, the average age of whose members is 65. In New Orleans the big names are Pete Fountain, Al Hirt, Mike Lala. And almost anywhere the Dukes of Dixieland can be heard. "The customers," explains one jazz critic, "like to get loaded and imitate trombones...