Evening star., 1955-11-25
BY HARRY Macarthur

BY HAIRY MacAhIHUh
The phenomenal art of Lib
Grace. which fiowered in tele-
vision. mas been transplantedI
from the small hot-house to the
broad movie lawn. It seems to-
have survived the operation
Whatever it is, it still is in Sim
cerely Yours" in Warner Color
and fun size on the Metropolitan
and Ambassador screens,
You can--or a movie producer
can-,get a great deal more
schrnaltz into a two-hour enter
prise with q plot than can be.
squeezed into a half-hour musi-I
cal film for Tv. This. however,
is just about the only difference
between Liberace 81 inches wide
at home and Liberace good and
broad in a movie theater.
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It is not quite the only differ
ence, come to think of it.
Startled as the author of the
observation is to be making it.
it must be noted that Liberace'sI
personality proves more palat-I
able to the non-addict in these
less confining surroundings Of
the movie theater. When heI
coyly winks at me across the
living room he is the most of the
least and thank goodness there
are other TV channels. In Sin
cerely Yours" he Is much easier
to take than some Of the duck
tailed haircut boys with two
blunt names instead Of one liquid
one that the movie-makers keep
foisting upon us.
Even so, your enjoyment of
sincerity Yours is likely toI
match exactly your present to-
lerance for the Candelahra Kid.
If you are one Of those who doteI
on him already. you can dote like
crazy here. If you are not among
the initiated 1t is probable that
you will. after a couple Of hours.
fall prey to the delusion that you
have been pole-aXed. There is an
awful lot Of Liberace on display
In Sincerely Yours playing the
piano, Smoothing with girls.
playing the piano some more and
bravely weathering hardship I'M
the pliisheat penthouse overlook
ing Central Park.
& Liberace has been cast for hisI
motion picture debut in the role
of Anthony Warrin. a pianist
who, as one Of the other charac-
ters explains, respects the clas-I
sizes from a sitting rather than
q kneeling position. This position
enables him. Of course, TO cut
them into ribbons, but this Isl
neither here nor there. Liberacei
is this pianist, see, and he goes
around cheering the multitudesl
with his keyboard artistry and
being cheered by them.
There is something missing.
though. Liberace, or Warrin,
wants to play in Carnegie Hall
because a pianist just isn't any
body until he has played in
Carnegie Hall. He gets his
chance, too. but fate fells him
minutes before the concert is toI
start, leaving him stone, cold
deaf In the dressing room. Just
like Beethoven, he is. and de on
the first churl to suggest that he
is the more fortunate on the
premises. This fellow likes to lis
ten to himself play the piano.
= He shies away from the sug-
sested operation. however. tt
might leave him permanently
deaf and the way things are
his hearing may return for
awhile. He does quite a lot Of
brooding in that penthouse, un-
til he learns lip reading and
buys binoculars to eavesdrop on
the people in the park. Then
there are those girls-the rich
enc he thinks he loves Dorothy
Malonel and the secretary who
loves him fJoanne Drul and
all in all things are in q pretty
mess.
EA&s&
This Is about all you are going
70 learn here Of the plot pro-
yided by Irving Wallace for the
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