Word: angells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angel's Bed. The week's mounting tension augured ill for General George C. Marshall's mission of peace. When he went to Kuling for a short visit with Chiang he saw on Kuling's main street a large poster-portrait of himself, subscribed: "Welcome General Marshall, Most Honored Angel of Peace." That night in Chiang's guest cottage, General Marshall slept in a bed seven feet long and five feet wide. The Kuling correspondent of Ta Rung Pao, Shanghai's independent newspaper, reported this fact to his readers, then asked...
Only a handful bought tickets to her first concert in Mexico City last year, but at intermission excited Mexicans rushed into the streets to shout the news of a new discovery. For the encores, the theater was filled, even to standees. The newspaper Novedades raved: "Was it an angel? A nightingale? A flute of gold?" During the next four weeks Ellabelle Davis sang five more concerts; all were sellouts. Finally the Nacional signed her for this season's Aïda. After the opera season she is booked for 21 concerts in Central and South America...
...witnessing heavy, provocative drama, the local summer theatre group has been serving up a light diet of mysteries and comedies, spiced by the presence of some well-known personalities in its recent bill-of-fare. Its latest offering, fully in keeping with that policy, is Patrick Hamilton's "Angel Street," the semi-psychological thriller which enjoyed a successful tour some four years ago and subsequently emerged as a Hollywood epic ("Gaslight") in 1944. If Francis Lederer's performance in the "name" role falls short of the standard set by Vincent Price in the original production, there is a compensating performance...
...Angel Street" is the tale of a Macchiavellian murderer who is cheated out of the fruits of his crime, the theft of valuable rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror...
...eyes were "like the clear summer sky," her name was Serafima, which means "angel," and she lived with her mother. What's more, they had two whole rooms. So Factory Worker Udod paid Serafima 20,000 rubles, married her and moved in. In Moscow, where housing space was scarcer than Trotskyites in the Kremlin, a man could be proud of such a bargain...