Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ferrer, then playing in The Silver Whistle, went to six matinees in a row, explaining: 'I've been in this business a long time, and Rex Harrison is the only actor doing comedy that I can learn from.' " At the time Rex Harrison was playing in Bell, Book and Candle, I was not playing in The Silver Whistle. I have only seen one performance of Bell, Book and Candle, and I have never, at any time in my life, said anything remotely resembling the quote attributed to me. My admiration for Mr. Harrison is unbounded...
...Vendetta. Three months ago, during Italy's municipal elections, the Communists staged a big rally in the square. Don Cesare chose this moment to toll his bells in celebration of a three-day vigil for St. Catherine of Siena. The deafening tones of the tocsin scattered the Red audience like autumn leaves. Three days later, the biggest bell disappeared, skillfully and silently lowered by pulleys from its 75-ft. belfry. "It wasn't for the value of the bell that they stole it," said Don Cesare, eying the gaping space in his bell tower. "It was done...
...Crooked Creek's Preacher Prescott, who knows that "all of this short life [is] a leavetaking, while you hang on, saying No, not yet." Preacher Prescott, both a Job and a Jeremiah, is summoned to his church in the dead of one night by the clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln...
...contaminated it with what can only be called some pretty lousy English. So delicate and tasteful a play as this should not contain such lines as "I feel like I could fly" or--as Teresa exclaims when she looks to see if it is Antonio who has rung the bell...
...players to Laarne are the direct descendants of the circular trompe de chasse developed in France toward the middle of the 17th century. The present-day horn is a 4.54 meter-long conical brass tube wound three times around and flaring from the mouthpiece to a fat bell. Pitched to the key of C, the horn sounds a plaintive, husky call which on good days may ride the wind for a mile or more...