Word: belshazzar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. William Turner Walton, 46, British composer (Belshazzar's Feast and the musical score for Olivier's Henry V and Hamlet); and Susana Gil de Passo, 22, daughter of an Argentine lawyer; in a religious ceremony five weeks after a civil ceremony; in Buenos Aires...
This week Rank's Religious Films Ltd. unveiled a new production called Belshazzar's Feast, and a new star - the Rt. Rev. Christopher Maude Chavasse, bishop of Rochester. The film opens with a shot of the bishop preaching. As the sermon unfolds, screen stills dramatize the story -from the feast, through the handwriting on the wall, to Daniel's denunciation...
...Belshazzar is an experiment which Rank thought up himself: a 15-minute illustrated sermon designed as a shot in the arm for congregations being slowly droned to death by uninspired parsons. If it is a success, it will be followed by other shorts, starring distinguished preachers...
...brought back with him an unfinished canvas of Belshazzar's Feast. Tart-tongued Gilbert Stuart promptly advised him to change the whole perspective. Allston tried. But he never got the picture right. For 25 years, while admiring Harvard students sat at his feet, while Boston's great dropped in at his romantically dusty studio for chats that continued long past midnight, Allston struggled with Belshazzar's Feast. He painted minor works, but kept returning to Belshazzar. Six hours before his death in 1843, he was still at work at it, and getting nowhere...
William Walton: Belshazzar's Feast