Word: keep
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Like all the Disney adaptations of famous boys' books (Treasure Island, Rob Roy), Kidnapped shuns the grandeurs that encumber most of Hollywood's hysterical historicals. The picture is made to the scale of the book, which is modest. Unfortunately, in trying to keep it small, Director Stevenson has also made it insignificant; and in trying to temper its excitement, he has let it become dull...
...hired her for one of the solo parts in Mahler's Second Symphony with the Philharmonic Although she sings some contemporary works, she prefers the songs of Hugo Wolf excerpts from Wagner, Mahler. Said she before going onstage last week: "I fee every word, but I have to keep the feel ing under control. I sing Das Lied as if I'm looking on, not as if I'm living...
...thing to do when in public, today's painters like to say, is keep mum and let one's canvases speak for themselves. But unhappily, not all modern canvases are exactly self-explanatory, and when the painters do open up, the listener can be in for a dizzy experience. Among the most successful of the second generation of the so-called School of New York are the three women whose works are shown in color (right). When they choose, they have a kind of eloquence...
...decline. As in Part I, Eric Berry plays Falstaff with, fine, resourceful gusto; among his playmates, Gerry Jedd's Mistress Quickly, Franklin Cover's Silence and Ray Reinhardt's Pistol are all good, and John Heffernan's Shallow something better. The time-honored comic scenes keep their blend of rust and magic. The royal scenes, full of a rhetoric that needs a humanizing voice, fare a good deal less well. But where humor and humanity cooperate. Stuart Vaughan's staging is dynamic, and the two parts of Henry IV play a rewarding part...
Died. Mirza Ali Khan, 72, the Fakir of Ipi, leader of the fierce Pathan tribe in the rugged mountains on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, who repeatedly raided the British between 1919 and 1947, got help at times from Afghanistan and the Axis powers, who were anxious to keep the British tied up; of a heart ailment; in his mountain home in Waziristan...