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...scores for one week's show. Its half-dozen sponsors pay $150,000 a week to put the show on the air. Last month Liebman built the interior of a submarine at a cost of $2,000, then used the set for only 72 minutes in a Sid Caesar sketch...
...Since Caesar's legions and Hannibal's elephants crossed the Alps on footpaths, man has been waging a slow battle to conquer Europe's rock curtain. In 1800 Napoleon widened the Alpine trails and made them military roads. By 1820 the St. Gotthard pass had been widened to 18 feet, enough for two-way carriage traffic, but only in summer. Then in 1870 the eight-mile Mount Cenis railway tunnel, an engineering marvel in its day, was holed through...
...Caesar and Cleopatra--at Loew's Center--A revival of Rank's excellent movie. If you couldn't get to see Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in New York, now's your chance. Claude Rains is Caesar...
...Military men are likely to be bellicose in foreign affairs, like Napoleon, and dictatorial at home, like Caesar...
...wars that is even more a chronicle of power than it is of passion. The characters are uniformly worldlings, plotters, palter-ers, betrayers; even Antony is destroyed by lust, not love; and Cleopatra is as devious as she is passionate. Antony and Cleopatra is really less the sequel of Caesar and Cleopatra than of Shakespeare's own Julius Caesar. And in this checkered struggle for domination, it is not wisdom that triumphs in the end (Caesar lies bleeding in the Capitol), nor idealism (Brutus is dead by his own hand), nor passion (Antony and Cleopatra are dead by theirs...