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Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...
Alec's first screen role - Herbert Pocket in Dickens' Great Expectations - decided him that here was the life. He promptly hired an agent to rustle him up some more movie jobs, preferably "a Hollywood picture for the good it does one - not financial especially, but for one's reputation." His agent's impression: "There's no bloody nonsense about Alec...
...Screen Guild Players (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Noel Coward's Brief Encounter, with Loretta Young and Herbert Marshall...
...best sincere, ordinary and likable, without exciting much interest. But whenever the individual actors are ignored and the camera watches the hard formations or the listless stragglings of masses of men-or, still better, examines the terrible bleakness of the camp itself under several kinds of weather-the screen comes alive. Some of the shots of the desolate Nazi camp (taken in a real one, Marlag, in the British zone near Hamburg) imply, within a few seconds, months on end of quiet, soul-dissolving misery...
...already been proved that Shakespeare (Henry V) can be transferred satisfactorily to the screen, but the sizable problems of transferring opera are hardly recognized in this unpretentious movie. This is merely a conventional stage production modified by equally conventional movie devices. It is good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian...