Word: arcing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kind of show that hallows what it calls the "upbeat" personality, he is an offbeat figure: a small (5 ft. 4 in., 152 Ib.) man with an oppressed air, an uneasy smile and a cocky way of blurting his answers. His pronunciation is occasionally mangled, e.g., Joan of Arc was "beautified" in 1909. And his replies are so swift and sure, so full of extraneous details that come gushing with almaniacal glee that the show's producers feared at first that the show would seem...
...film studio near London, 526 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, realism-bound Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger sought to restage the event, almost succeeded. Shooting the burning scene for his movie version of Shaw's Saint Joan, Preminger watched happily as his fledgling star, young (18) Iowa-born Jean Seberg, mounted a pile of faggots and was duly chained to the stake. Soldiers lighted the faggots and Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden...
...Then the visitors left and silently clustered about loudspeakers outside; inside the vast empty house, La Scala's 120-man orchestra played the Funeral March from Beethoven's Eroica for its old master. Later, the coffin rested in the glow of candles and the glare of television arc-lamps in Milan's great Gothic cathedral. After Mass, Victor de Sabata, now principal conductor at La Scala, led the Cathedral and La Scala choirs in Verdi's magnificent Requiem; it is rarely heard in church because it is considered too theatrical, but Italians knew that no other...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Lark, with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc (color...
...seeds of a new French revolution were being sown last week in a small shop near the Arc de Triomphe. There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers. In two or three days, the yellow-fronted shop did as much business as others in the neighborhood handled in a year...