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...strike in the High Sierras at a place candidly christened Coarse Gold. He runs across another ex-lawman (Randolph Scott), who is picking up pennies as a carnival sharpshooter. Scott agrees to go along, and suggests a third partner, a sassy, fist-fast, trigger-quicker kid (Ronald Starr). The trio shortly becomes a quartet, as a naive but personable girl (Mariette Hartley) decides to swap the whip-hand threats of her religious zealot father for the ring-finger promises of a beau up at Coarse Gold...
Burnett blends pure waffles-and-syrup Americana with a tomboyish hoydenism and emerges as the girl next door, only vastly more amusing. In 1952, she was industriously studying journalism at U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take part in a college show. She went on, got a houseful of laughs, then and there decided to switch her major. Says Carol: "It's kind of like dope. You get hooked...
Moscow, she observed, "isn't as sophisticated a city as, say, Leningrad, and I noticed that people wouldn't even applaud for a work by Bach." According to Pianist Starr, the jury distinguished "three distinct 'schools' of piano playing: American, French and Russian. And the thing that seemed to set the Americans apart was what they called 'overemotionalism...
...Pianist Starr missed two things while in Russia: a good shampoo and her husband, Pianist Kenneth Amada. "The Russians are a very musical people," said she, "but they don't know beans about handling a bouffant hairdo." Said her husband, to whom she has been married for only three months: "We've spent much too little time together. That's the musical life for you. But if we give some two-piano concerts, perhaps we'll see each other a little more often...
Rated only a shade below Ashkenazy and Ogdon last week were Philadelphia-born Pianist Susan Starr, 20, and Chinese Pianist Yin Cheng-tsung, 21, tied for second place. Playing before swarming crowds-tickets were so prized that one old lady who died during the winter willed hers to her niece-the contestants worked their way through three nerve-wrenching rounds before entering the finals...