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...raucous, good-humored music of Richard Strauss, with choreography by 27-year-old Jean Babilée (TIME, April 23). In the Babilée version, Till's merry pranks usually have their grim side, e.g., when a pretty girl spurns him, he turns her into a witch; when hunchbacked beggars welcome him to their group, he steals their money. At the end, he is saved from the chopping block by a girl who ought to know better but loves him anyway. Babilée's lithe gymnastics are the whole show...
Rainmaking in New York is again the province of Mother Nature and any witch doctors who may care to turn their hands to it. Wallace E. Howell '36, research meteorologist at the University's Blue Hills Observatory, no longer seeds the heavens for the city's reservoirs...
...discussion period following the films suffers from the common TV complaint of too many participants, too little time, too much simplification. But the experts are uncommonly successful at stripping away some of the witch-doctor illusions about psychiatry, and at blasting psychoanalytic cliches ("Oddly enough, children from happy homes are sometimes the most unfit; they take their parents' happiness for granted and don't learn what hard work goes into it") Blonde, 43-year-old Isabel Leighton, who edited a 1949 bestseller, The Aspirin Age, is an ex-war correspondent and actress who first took up psychiatry...
William Stoughton Class of 1650, was a "prominent, wealthy and unpopular" leader in Massachusetts life during the later half of the seventeenth century. His grandiloquent sermons and the leading role he played in the witchcraft trials led a contemporary to describe him as a "pudding faced, sanctimonious, and unfeeling witch-hanger...
Based on a 1933 German movie by Curt Goetz called Dr. Praetorius, People goes fairly deep for Hollywood into such questions as witch hunts, illegitimate babies, medical ethics and income-tax exemptions. Mankiewicz gets a full measure of help from his cast, each of whom has at least one big scene to put his teeth into. Gary Grant, whether being intimidated by a collie or bearding a board of examiners, plays to perfection the man who refuses to worry about anyone's opinion but his own. In the difficult role of a girl who keeps falling...