Word: arcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan of Arc (Sierra Pictures; RKO Radio) gives Ingrid Bergman the biggest role in her career. She almost fills it. If the rest of the movie were up to Miss Bergman, it could be rated very close to excellent. As it is, it rates A for effort...
...story of Joan of Arc has enchanted film makers as it has poets, artists, musicians, dramatists, historians. The first film Joan of Arc was made in 1900 by French Movie Pioneer George Melies. Pathe made two versions (1909 and 1913). Cecil B. DeMille's crack at the subject (191?) was called Joan the Woman, starring Geraldine Farrar. Perhaps the most exciting version was Carl Dreyer's silent La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), starring Mile. Falconetti...
When the Council finally convened, President Bramuglia put the Little Six compromise proposal to a vote. Arc lights blazed and a hundred cameras clicked as Vishinsky's hand, pausing on its way to flick an invisible speck of dust from its owner's black suit, sharply stabbed the air. "We cannot accept . . ." said Vishinsky. It was Russia's 28th veto. Said the U.S.'s Philip Jessup: "In the judgment of the world . . . if the Berlin question is not settled . . . the responsibility of failure will rest squarely and unavoidably on the government of the U.S.S.R...
...Sigmund Romberg; book & lyrics by Rowland Leigh; produced by the Messrs. Shubert) gives the effect, with almost none of the enjoyment, of a huge Thanksgiving dinner. It is operetta at its most oppressive. The audience would not have too bad a time if it simply (like Joan of Arc) heard voices; the Sigmund Romberg songs are conventionally melodious and the singing is quite up to snuff. But otherwise the audience has a great deal to endure...
When the American Army drove the Germans out of Italy in 1945, it took among other prisoners Ezra Pound, expatriate poet, radio propagandist for Mussolini and self-made pundit who thought Hitler a "martyr" comparable to Joan of Arc. After a short stay in a prison camp near Pisa, where he continued to write poetry, the aging (63), rheumy-eyed poet was brought back to the U.S. to face treason charges. The case never came to trial; instead he was declared insane, and still languishes in St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington...