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...Athena (M-G-M). For Hollywood musicals, 1954 has been a good year. M-G-M led off with Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Warner followed with A Star Is Born, and Fox with Carmen Jones. Now M-G-M has made a musical burlesque of some California cults. The idea is brutally chewed up in the execution, but enough remarkable bits and pieces land on the screen to make Athena well worth a look...
...story: Adam Calhorn Shaw (Edmund Purdom) has everything a young man could want-prominent family, imminent fame, eminent income. Two young women (Linda Christian and Jane Powell) want not only him, but his attributes, too. Linda is a nice, safe society type, but Jane (the Athena of the title) is something else again. She lives with grandma (Evelyn Varden) and grandpa (Louis Calhern) on a Southern California hilltop. Grandma, a buxom old beldam, wears a flowing white burnoose. Grandpa is a gay old (78) caloric crank...
Oldtimers insist that this anecdote has symbolic significance. In just such a way, they remark, did the rough & ready young Belloc, "fully armed and uttering war cries like Athena" (in the words of the London Times) invade "the startled, insular world of late Victorian Oxford." While he laid about him, buffeting the dons, intoning ballads and drinking songs, dominating political and religious debate, Britons soothed themselves by reflecting that he was, after all, a bit of a foreigner. For every true Briton believes at heart that whenever his peace is disturbed by uncompromising passion and brilliance, foreign blood is bound...
Fourment, Dierick Bouts's The Annunciation and Rembrandt's Pallas Athena (for which the artist's adolescent son Titus had posed in a glittering helmet and shield). Gulbenkian had bought all three of them from the famous Hermitage collection of the Russian czars, after persuading the Soviet Union to part with them...
...University of Georgia, Athena Georgia, James Barfeet, assistant professor of Education, was dismissed on May 12. 1948. The week before, he had been selected as the Progressive Party candidate for governor. After his dismissal, Barfoot accepted the nomination...