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...Hollywood or Bust (Hal Wallis; Paramount) might be called a redundant pun. Like most Dean Martin-Jerry Lewis productions, the movie is a package job. It tidily wraps up some songs (by Dean), a few gags (by Jerry), a couple of dozen long-stemmed American beauties (in shorts), a lot of scenery (in VistaVision), and Anita Ekberg (in decolletage). The opportunity to display all these items begins when Jerry, an idiotic movie fan, sets out for Hollywood with Dean to meet Anita, the movie queen of his dreams. Stopping off in Las Vegas, Jerry gets his lucky feeling, parlays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 21, 1957 | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

Last fall, the Drama Group presented Oedipus Rex and The Critic; Hal Scott played the lead and D.J. Sullivan directed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Play Announced | 1/15/1957 | See Source »

Against the Cadet medley relay combination, varsity coach Hal Ulen will probably send Murray, Sigo Falk, Bill Hoadley, and Jon Lind. This team was successful against M.I.T., but should have some trouble at the Point...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Varsity Swimming Team to Open League Competition at West Point | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...attraction. The score is second-rate Offenbach, first performed in 1868, well after the glories of La Belle Helens (1864) and Orpheus (1858); but it is still the work of a master in his field. The libretto is by two hacks of genius, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, who vaguely based it (as they did their celebrated book for Carmen) on a work by Prosper Mérimée.* As a pretty street singer who ditches her poor but honest boy friend (Baritone Theodor Uppman) for a viceroy of Peru, Soprano Patrice Munsel does some discreet bumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Romp at the Met | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Some serious scouting outside the neighborhood, however, will almost certainly take place at the Football Coaches Convention in St. Louis next week. Hal Lahar, who has coached Colgate to success the past five years, may be approached in St. Louis...

Author: By Richard T. Cooper, | Title: Writers Begin Guessing On Next Mentor | 1/4/1957 | See Source »

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