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...making gifts of broadcasting rights to F.T.R.D., authors have been equally generous. James Truslow Adams gave them his The Epic of America for an MBS series, Mary Roberts Rinehart her Tish stories for CBS broadcasting. Most lavish gift of all came from Medical Crusader Paul de Kruif, who has turned over his radio rights to Microbe Hunters, Hunger Fighters, Men Against Death, Why Keep Them Alive, The Fight for Life. Dramatization of all these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected...
...Robin Hood" is not an epic, despite the excellent filming by Technicolor; it is not a classic, for its departs too much from the classical legends; it is a most entertaining melodrama with a proper mixture of suspense, comedy, and romance...
Florencio Molina Campos never had a drawing lesson and he swears he couldn't draw a straight line if his life depended on it. In a style which fairly often succeeds in being comic, epic and pastoral at the same time, he has done more than 600 tempera and watercolor drawings of Gaucho life on the pampas of Argentina as he remembers it from his own childhood. So crammed with vitality are his buck-toothed cowboys and hammer-headed broncos, thrown into relief by strong, earthy tempera colors, that Pio Collivadino, onetime director of the National School of Decorative...
...symphonies of Mozart, who wrote his first when he was eight, and died at an age (34) when the average composer is just beginning to hit his stride. But the big symphonies of the German romantic period usually came comparatively late in their composers' lives. Great epic Symphonist Beethoven, who wrote nine, waited until 30 to write his first one; Symphonist Brahms waited until he was 43; Symphonist Bruckner until...
...University, does not, like so many good pictures, herald a relapse in programs. On the contrary, "Gold Is Where You Find It," which will succeed "The Buccaneer" on Sunday, carries on as one of the finest pictures of its kind. Photographed entirely in technicolor, it is an epic of early California when the issue of the day was between gold and wheat. George Brent is excellent as the young mining engineer, and Olivia De Haviland is convincing enough as the passionate exponent of agriculture. The picture is well worth seeing by any homeless Harvard waifs incarcerated here over the weekend...