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Kismet is an effective honey-coated sleeping pill, but as entertainment it's about as thrilling as an old circus poster. Based on the Broadway musical of a couple of seasons ago, the film has one claim to fame--its sets support more gilt paint per square foot than those of any other picture of 1955. But as soon as almost any one of the actors opens his mouth, the Cinemascoped splendor of Hollywood-Oriental interiors cannot hide the sad thruth that sets are just not a very satisfactory substitute for either comedy or music...
...group of down-at-heel U.S. artists wasting their time and money in Guadalajara manage to be both bored and boring as they dabble with drink, dope, adultery and murder. Best feature: the exotic setting of purple trees and pink adobe walls, as vividly colorful as a Mexican travel poster. But the characters are two-dimensional poster figures...
BERLIN, November 6--Side by side on the bulletin board of the new, modern post office in Augsburg, West Germany, are two notices. One is a brightly-colored poster showing scenes from East and West Germany under the bold legend: "Germany Indivisible." The other is an unobtrusive little card which announces that Soviet Zone authorities will not accept postal matter bearing the Federal Republic's "refugee stamp...
...Soviet sector. Spearheading this drive is the Bonn government's official Ministry for All German Affairs, which, in addition to co-ordinating the activities of other groups, carries on a fairly extensive propaganda campaign itself. Perhaps the next most active organization is the one responsible for the Augsburg poster and many similar ones all over Germany: "Germany Indivisible--the People's Movement for Reunification." Formed last year by some of the country's leading political figures, the group stepped up its activity this summer with a series of large outdoor rallies...
...cornered the musical market and with Williams, Miller, Wilder, and Inge to match against Fry and Rattigan, perhaps has the edge in straight drama as well. On the other hand, American actors cannot meet the English standard, and the competition gets more acute daily; outside the Old Vic, the poster announces The Merry Wives of Windsor and scribbled below by a fan "starring Princess Margaret...