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...guzzles before a swim. When she calls a friendly, reliable old uncle (Alexander Knox) to denounce the rascal, uncle celebrates his nephew's reincarnation. Then a couple of creepy, creeping servants jangle her nerves even more. Who is the hero? Is it the sad-mouthed police comisario (Herbert Lorn) who lurks in the shadows? Is there a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 28, 1958 | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

Malcolm Ticknor, whose facial expressions were delightful and Arthur Papas contributed some very lovely singing, while O'Brien Nicholas' portrayal of the love-lorn newsboy was amusing and tender. The ensemble singing was, on the whole, very stylish...

Author: By Paul A. Buttenwieser, | Title: Divertimento and The Poor Sailor | 4/18/1958 | See Source »

This boycott opened the way for a rise to fame of a naturalized Chinese named Kao K'o-kung, whose ancestors came Lorn Central Asia. He joined the Khan's court, and rose to become his Minister of Justice. Endowed with extraordinary ability as a painter, he first patterned his style on the impressionist manner of Mi, later emulated the landscapes of loth century Painter Tung Yuan, finally retired to savor the intellectual climate of Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE ART | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...maxims (sample: "Where there is aw there is injustice") and then dies; he Machiavellian Prince Vassily (Tullio Jarminati) scarcely gets out of the wings, and the two men struggling for possession of Holy Russia, Kutuzov (Oscar Homolka) and Napoleon (Herbert Lorn), are seen simply as eccentrics-the one, an untidy, drowsy general; the other, a preening peacock who imagines he is an :agle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...jazz-lorn city of Dacca, Pakistan, Dizzy discovered a ragged boy playing a one-stringed instrument on the street, and found the weird sounds so congenial that he stopped and had a jam session. In Karachi the first show was half-empty, the second nearly full, the third packed. "Man," bragged Dizzy, "give us three shows, and we'll create our own audience." At a garden party in Ankara, Gillespie saw a tattered crowd peering from outside the fence and insisted that they be admitted. "We came to play for the poor people as well as the rich people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Export | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

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