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Despite the ever-present dichotomy between drama and visual effect, White Nights has at least one peerless scene. Mastroianni takes Schell to a rock-and-roll night club, and they watch some obviously rehearsed and ludicrous Italian jitterbugging. After a few painful moments, they join in. From here on until they leave the club, movement and light, words and action all merge together. When the music slows, pairs of faces pressed cheek-to-cheek fill the screen and revolve about each other. A baroque schema out of Rubens, which is attractive and dramatic in itself, also happens...
Died. Eugene Speicher, 79, peerless U.S. portraitist, a robust, orderly New Yorker who imposed his own stamp of warm-hued repose-at its best in his pinky luminous nudes-on all his subjects from Katharine Cornell as Candida to country bumpkins; after a long illness; in Woodstock, N.Y., where in 1907 he founded an art colony with his close friend, Artist George Bellows...
...employed beauteous ballerinas and assorted other troupers, each of whom, upon being captured, put on a performance. So distracting, in fact, was the circus atmosphere (the show stopper: a satirical song that went, "Kings get five-room apartments Knights get single rooms And pawns get nothing at all") that peerless Grand Master Botvinnik could do no better than a draw...
Died. Bruno Walter (born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), 85, peerless, poetic interpreter of romantic music, a Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...
Died. Moss Hart, 57, peerless creator of Broadway and Hollywood classics, a genial, satanic-looking genius who wrote 22 plays (including 1937 Pulitzer Prizewinner You Can't Take It with You) and directed eleven (including My Fair Lady and Camelot); of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif. The son of an impoverished cigarmaker, Hart broke into the entertainment business as a social director on New York's "borscht circuit." wrote his first successful play (Once in a Lifetime) at 26 with longtime collaborator George S. Kaufman, went on to turn out a long series of hits including...