Word: angels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolla pays its top stars an Equity minimum wage (lesser names get their regular price), sticks to a modest budget and limits itself to one set per production. But sometimes Hollywood will out. When Jennifer Jones starred last season in Serena Blandish, Angel Selznick insisted on surrounding his favorite actress (later to become his wife) with a cast that included Cinemactor Louis Jourdan and such polished stage veterans as Constance Collier, Mildred Natwick and Reginald Owen. He also insisted on gowns by Jacques Fath and five sets. The show drew capacity crowds throughout its run-and lost several thousand dollars...
...stay in the U.S. is a stormy one, highlighted by: 1) a tug of war with a string of overaged strongmen (including Primo Camera, Phil ("Swedish Angel") Olafsson, and Man Mountain Dean); 2) an ear-splitting rampage in which Joe reduces the nightclub to kindling; and 3) the lurid rescue of a tot in a nightie from a burning orphanage...
...Mahanaim, in Galilee, near the place where Jacob once wrestled all night with an angel, Syrian and Israeli representatives met last week, after 3½ months of haggling, to conclude an armistice on the last active front of the Palestine...
...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
...archbishop himself was paying a visit that day. Police Chief Luis Proafio forbade all cars to leave the village, went out to search with Padre Leon. Some miles down the road, they were hailed by a man standing with his face half hidden in a shawl. It was Angel Sanchez, asking for a lift...