Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 10 p.m., ABC). Angel Street, starring Helen Hayes, Victor Jory and Leo G. Carroll...
...François Vintenon, a habitué of Paris' Latin Quarter. The sensitive, introverted son of a well-to-do merchant, François had joined a group of Left Bank surrealists. He was tall and thin; his friends said he had the face of a "perverse angel." He wrote poems which nobody understood. He lived by stealing. After the German invasion, François' father, who had turned collaborationist in order to save his business, persuaded his son to write for a Nazi publishing enterprise at 10,000 francs a month. After eight months, Fran...
...Black Angel (Universal) is the kind of murder mystery that ought to turn up more often. It is not memorable, in the Hitchcock sense, but neat, alert and thoroughly enjoyable. Its story: the husband (Dan Duryea) of a murdered blackmailer (Constance Dowling) and the wife (June Vincent) of the man condemned as the killer, try to find out who really did it. In the process they mix with Homicide Squad Captain Broderick Crawford, Night club Owner Peter Lorre, and Bodyguard Freddie Steele. They also whisk through a lot of the nicely observed detail which more pretentious movies usually miss. Samples...
Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, a mosaic-walled mosque in a corner of the Old City, is Islam's third holiest shrine. From the Rock, Mohamed, led by the Angel Gabriel, ascended on el-Buraq, his eagle-winged mare with the human face, to visit the seven heavens of Islam. (Mohamed's footprint, judged by Mark Twain to be about size 18, is still pointed out to true believers; in the 12th Century it was shown as the footprint of Christ.) Here the muezzin's wail is still heard from the upper air, calling...
...Mother's little angel seems to turn to demon overnight. For Six, life is duplex. He seesaws between yes & no, love & hate, laughter & tears, chocolate & vanilla. A tough first-grade teacher who insists on his learning the three Rs may give Six a stomachache; he would rather play games. This little extravert loves praise, can't stand criticism, frequently confuses "thine" with "mine...