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...side, Yordan is co-producing Ma-ritta Wolff's Whistle Stop (he wrote the script) with Seymour (Mayerling) Neben-zal. He has the script ready for his next movie, Crime and Punishment, with the setting changed from St. Petersburg to Boston...
...Librettist Hammerstein has not given Carousel the full flavor of Molnar, at least he has given it all the interest of a true play. His script is always simple, sometimes touching, never flashy, only here & there a little cute. And Composer Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This...
...owes a debt, however, to James Wong Howe's beautiful photography, to Scriptwriter John Howard Lawson (who also wrote Sahara), and to the eight Germans who, barring some excesses forced on them by the script, make up a supporting cast the like of which is dreamed of but seldom seen. In his fatter, more difficult role Paul Muni is as fine as they are so long as he takes it easy, but when he gets busy as an actor, his sincere, carefully paragraphed work seems unreal beside the Germans' snapshot authenticity...
...lost much of the dramatic effect which Ibsen originally wrote into the last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...
...than 650 of her poems were published for the first time. They are wonderful: some of them are as good as her best. On an old scrap of paper (not large enough, so she had to write around the edges), in her curious hand writing, half-print and half-script, she noted...