Word: boise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play and moviegoers unfamiliar with the tangled tale of Streetcar were hard put to follow the plot line, but found it gripping and disturbing nevertheless. Beaten Blanche Du Bois, danced by Slavenska, quickly revealed the incipient madness which, in the play, had a slower buildup. Thereafter, the dance action veered...
Through the years, even the name went through strange evolutions. Simla Vulpina (fox-monkey), after Martyr's description, turned out to be the Boschrot of Dutch explorers, the rat de bois of Louisiana's French trappers, didelphys in the classic zoology of Linnaeus and finally the modern opossum...
Next step will be to get member nations to vote the money. For purse-poor UNESCO, this may take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the...
In Any Language is, in short, a hodgepodge of all the worst that the modern slick theatrical comedy has to offer. It capitalizes on smut and unfunny topical references, and does not bother to channel the audience's sympathy towards any of the characters. The character analysis itself is in...
Staged in authentic British locales by Director Richard Thorpe, Ivanhoe is at its best in its spectacular action sequences: Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor), resplendent in black armor on a black charger, splintering lances with five Norman knights in the lists at Ashby; Ivanhoe championing the persecuted Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) against Norman...