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...understand the screenwriters' efforts to scrape the tarnish from poor Launcelot's soul. And it is clear that they had to pare down the number of characters wandering through the story to keep within the limits of the CinemaScope screen. But when only a lean-faced Mel Ferrer, a sullen Ava Gardner, and a Frank Merriwellish Robert Taylor remain, disappointment tends to creep in. All that keeps the audience from leaving their seats are the colorful sword-swinging battle scenes between regiments of Round Table rivals and the single-handed heroics of Robert Taylor's Launcelot...
Lili (M-G-M). An elfin little musical that never quite gets lost in its own whimsy; with Leslie Caron, Jean Pierre Aumont, Mel Ferrer (TIME, March...
...tape and reels it out as a two-hour "Sunday newspaper of the air." Its 15-minute "pages" cover everything from world news to criticism of the arts, call in some well-known name droppers. Tex McCrary interviews celebrities, and Jinx runs a woman's page, Mel Allen talks sports, Elmo Roper talks trends, Florabel Muir (see PRESS) gushes from Hollywood, Earl Wilson gives Broadway lowdown. Weekend is almost overwhelming in its volume and variety, but a generally relaxed manner and skillful transitions make it well worth hearing...
Tatum, Fats Waller, Earl Hines and Mel Powell, and taking a more than occasional fling at jazz herself "behind locked doors...
...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...