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Invitation (M-G-M), based on a story by Jerome Weidman, bears an astonishing resemblance to Henry James's chilling classic, The Wings of the Dove. Like James's Milly, Dorothy McGuire is a poor little rich girl doomed to an early death from an incurable heart ailment, and her plight provides an opportunity for a pair of fortune hunters. When the film opens, Dorothy-unaware that she has only a few months to live-is being showered with expensive gifts by her grieving father, Louis Calhern, and with little attentions by her husband, Van Johnson. Between presents...
...Wholesale (20th Century-Fox) waters down and sugars up Jerome Weidman's merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
...story of Manhattan's frantically competitive Seventh Avenue, the movie is no truer to life than it is to Weidman. But the picture shrewdly cashes in on the superficials of the garment-center scene, slightly altered for Hollywood slickness and stitched out with some sharp dialogue. This background, plus Michael Gordon's spirited direction, Actor Dailey's breeziness and Actress Hayward's fire, brighten the old scenario about the ruthless career woman who is redeemed by the love of a good...
...York City Opera's opera-thirsty little Director Laszlo Halasz decided last year to give the Three Oranges a squeeze. He fixed one flaw right away by having the libretto translated from French into English. New sets, a bright young cast, some comical choreography by Charles Weidman, and some overall Halasz humor fixed the rest. The first production last year was a hit. Halasz quickly scheduled five more sellout performances. Next to Mozart's Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, Three Oranges became City Opera's biggest hit-big enough for Halasz to open his spring...
...Weidman's version of James Thurber's Fables for Our Time, which proved as witty as it had at first showing at Jacob's Pillow, near Lee, Mass., two years ago (TIME, July 28, 1947). As the man who comes upon a unicorn in his garden, as a chipmunk and as The Owl Who Was God, rubber-faced Dancer Weidman proved himself just about the master mime and top funny man of modern dance. ¶Sophie Maslow's Festival, an excerpt from an unfinished work called The Village I Knew, based on the folk tales...