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There is little novel interpretation of character: even that might distract from the great language, or distort it. There is no clear placement in time, no outside world except blind sky, faint landscapes, ruminant surf, a lyrical brook. The camera, prowling and peering about the cavernous castle, creates a kind of continuum of time and space. Such castles were almost as naked of furniture as the Elizabethan stage; Olivier uses both facts to the film's advantage. Not even the costumes are distracting; they are close to the simplest mind's-eye image: a King & Queen like playing...
...over Mexico City, blue and cloudless since November, last week turned grey. Now & then a little rain fell, and the afternoon winds ceased to cloak the city with powdery dust from the fields outside. In many a village women got ready for the first family wash since the village brook dried up last fall. Men stuck out their tongues to taste the rain,'or stood watching it soak into the parched earth...
...Twyford Peters, 66, coal merchant, latter-day popularizer of Currier & Ives, owner of the world's largest (5,000) collection of their prints; after long illness; in Manhattan. Collector Peters, also a fancier of horses & hounds, was Master of Fox Hounds at Long Island's famed Meadow Brook Club and U.S. dean of M.F.H.s when he retired...
...After Jacob, grandson of Abraham, had wrestled all night with the angel at the brook Jabbok, the angel dubbed him Israel ("Prince of God"), "for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed." * Defenders forced down one plane the first day, a British-made Spitfire. Its youthful Egyptian pilot was overjoyed to find that he was not to be subjected to torture, which he had been told to expect...
...Though Lord Beaver-brook's opinions color much of the news in the Express, the paper also reports many events that contravene his editorial views. And in The Beaver's Evening Standard, Cartoonist David Low goes right on poking fun at The Beaver's ruggedly individualistic stand. But Lord Beaverbrook's strictures on the U.S. have convinced many a Briton that the Daily Express is consciously and consistently anti-American. Actually it is friendly toward the U.S., but hostile to much of its policy and actions. The total impression the Express gives is that what...