Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when British Movie Director Michael Powell and Producer Emeric Pressburger set up their cameras in Britain's green Shropshire to film Gone to Earth, starring Jennifer Jones, the horsy set at the market town of Much Wenlock (pop. 14,149) were only too delighted to get into the act. Most of them had been too busy hunting all these years to read novels; they did not know much about the book's antihunting message or its sad ending in which the rapacious foxhounds chew up the heroine as she tries to save her pet fox from wicked hunters...
...church. President Gottwald freed 127 priests (jailed as hostages for their opposition to the government's new church laws), because they had "promised to mend their ways." A state court judge told the released priests: "I beg you to consider the significance and implied pledge of this magnanimous act...
...unhesitatingly conked him on the head with a hockey stick. As the blood streamed, another spectator jumped onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...
...expected, the company's real successes were its full-flavored, full-length performances of the three-and four-act ballet classics, the Tchaikovsky-Ivanov Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky-Petipa The Sleeping Beauty, which call for almost as much pantomime as dancing...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...