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Orwell wrote in the reverse English of the ironist: when he is most grim he reads most gay, and such laughter is a Jason's shield against the Medusa he is facing. In the movie all sense of humor is discarded, and the audience is asked to look the Soviet horror square in the eye. The film, in short, is a shocker that demands not customers but a sort of resolutely determined suicide squad...
...Jason and the Golden Fleece (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). New adventure series, with Macdonald Carey...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
...matter-of-fact tone of a chronicler, she sped through the early lines, told how she, Medea, had lavished her love on her husband Jason, only to have him leave her for another woman. Gradually, with ever-widening vocal leaps and roller-coaster plunges, she worked up to her thoughts of revenge and-with a piccolo shrilling-to the murder of her own and Jason's children. The piece ended in a gloomy postlude. When it was over, the orchestra gave Thebom a concerted "Bravo!", and the audience, once it recovered its composure, called her back five times...
Freshmen elected members to this committee as follows: Holmes, Helen Gardiner and Joan Rubinstein; Cabot, Anne Tyler and Ernestine Woodward; Eliot, Betty-Jo Linch; Whitman, Paula Morse and Anne Newman; Bertram, Carol Kirsch; Briggs, Sally Huntington and Nancy Leet; Barnard, Jeanne Jason and Virginia Winstead; Moors, Mary Jane Richards and Eleanor Smith; Commuters, Joan Harvey and Jeanmaric MacKelvie...