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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR
WINS FOURTH
OSCAR NOMINATION
Hollywood, Feb. 27.
SMALL AUDIENCE. BUT A GOOD CONCERT
By D. E. GRAY
Elizabeth Taylor won her fourth Oscar nomina-
tion in four years on Monday as the Motion T good form last night. Generally speaking, they play- THE Hongkong Philharmonic Orchestra was in very Picture Academy announced nominees for the 33rd annual awards.
ed well throughout their concert in Loke Yew Hall.
The programme was not one perlodic transitics from major which was calculated to appeal to minor key. to the general puble, and ûs a result, There WDS a' uparse audience. This, of course, Aveillustrates a dificulty which will
Miss Taylor, not, yet n win- {with 10 nominations. It was ner, was named for her per-nominated for best picture, along formance at the wanton beauty with "The Alamo," seven in "Butterfield B". She faces nominations; "Sons and Lovers", strong competition from three seven: "Elmer
Gantry foreign born actresses and one und "The Sundowners," Avg.
Olber major nominees:--Best American Shirley MacLaine The wistful elevator girt In "The supporting actor; Peter Falks, "Murder Inc." Jack Kruschen, Apartment.
Mineo, "The Apartment"; Sal "Excdus"; Peter Ustinov, “Spar- tacus': Chill Wills, "The Alamo." Directors
Also nominated for best per- formance by an actress in 1900 wore Greer Garson, Mrs
Franklin D. "Sunrise at
Roosevelt in Campobello;"
Elizabeth Taylor
Deborah Kerr, the Sheepher; der's wife in "The Sundowners," and Melina Mercaurl, the Greek actress who portrayed a prosil- tute in "Never on Sunday."
Actors
There was been competition among the actors, too. Latt-j Olivier was nominated i rence
as the hard-bitten music hall
performer in "The Enter-
Bert supporting actress, Glynis Johns, "Tho Sun- downers": Shirley Jones, "Elmer Gantry"; Shirley Knight, "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs"; Janet Leigh, "Psycho": Mary Ure, "Sons and Lovers,”
always affect concerts given by a semi-amateur orchestra, The programune Jast night was obviously chosen so that it was well within the technical ability of the orchestra; and it was,
The
Cimarosa Overture "I Giorno Felice" was easy, light- weight mude, and well-played, Borodin's "Steppes of Central in a sprightly enough fashion, Asia" has
seme interesting writing for woodwind, part- cularly cor anglais, ober and horn.
Best direction. Bly Wilder, "The Apartment"; Jules I have always thought the Dassin, "Never on Sunday": "Steppes" rather a dull concer Alfred Hitchcock "Psycho"; piece. but again no one could Jack Cardiff, "Sons and say it was not given a satis Lovers" Fred Zinnemann, factory reading.
Sundowners."
Song Punt
from
vengeance,
The next number Weber's Bassoon Concerto-roused the audlence with This work is light-weight music as for as the orchestra is con- cerned. But the solo bassoon part is obviously very difcuit technically. Mr Fung Hang, the orchestra's Drst bassoonist took the solo part and proved to us, if any further proof ware quired, that he is an outstand- ing player.
TC-
In the first and third move- ment occasionally he seemed to want to take the music ut a faster pace than the orchestra was prepared to allow him; but I have never heard such clean bassoon playing In Hongkong, and in the slow movement his rich vibrato tone will long be remembered a really muture performance.
Was
A tar as the crchestra concerned, the enato work of the evening was very much the best. This was Schumann's 4th symp-
Pari of Gracner's "Flute of Sans
"The souci" was a little disappointing, Green Leaves of Summer," frcen The flute rounded to me to de "The Alamo": "The Second a little sharp, and there seem-hony in D Minor. This is not a Time Around,” from "High ed to be an unfortunate hiatus great symphony (none of Schu- but Time" and the title songs from in the first viulin section in the nann's symphonies are)
The Facts of Life" and "Never Serabande. But there were musically it was by far the Anest on Sunday."-AP.
Ecme lovely moments in
music on the programme. There for were no smudges at all so as I could hear, and all sections of the orchestra responded well and co-ordinated animirably.
NEW VERDICT SUGGESTED FOR
BRITISH JURIES
London, Feb. 27,
the
tainer," and Spencer Tracy as Lord Elton is to ask the Government whether it
the defending lawyer of "In- Jerli the Wind."
A noticeable feature of the composition of the orchestra Is the strengthening of the 'cello section by the addition of two fine lady 'cellists. And the four double basses, led by Mr Man- heim, gives an excellent balance to this orchestra,
Musical audiences will welcome Mrs Duncan as irst flute-she is very Ane player. The percuss.un
is good, but I thought the tim-
particularly in the cpening of
will consider changing the law to enable Bri-pani In parts was a little heavy, tish juries to bring in a verdict of "guilty but asleep" in murder cases.
decision
The other nominees were:-- Jack Lemmon, of "The Apart- men!": Buri Lancaster, the bible-pounding "Elmer Gantry,"
His and Trevor Howard, the drunken
follows the five years. The Boshears cose father of "Sons and Lovers." acquial of Willis Eugene might be consciously or sub-
tep Bothenes
American Staff consciously imitated." China "The Apartment" took
ini tho US Air Mail Special. honours among films, scoring Sergeant
Force, on a charge of murder- ing a 20-year-old English girl.
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Lord Elton, 62-year-old politically independent sald he intended to raise the malter in the House of Lords.
He hoped the proposed
verdict, like "guilly but
the concerto. Trombones were effective particularly in the last movement of the symphony,
Congratulations to Professor Foa and Dr Bard, for the pre-
of sentation
another good evening's orchestral music.
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Insane". would result in the Owing to length of picturo pleaso noto change of times:
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Boshears aged 29 admitted
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Boshears was acquitted on February 17. Lord Elton sald today "such a case has never happened before but it may well happen again in the next
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