Word: capulets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little relation to her general or specific knowledge. When she doesn't know the answer (which is most of the time) she glibly ad-libs anything that pops into her head. Quizmasters, who hate and fear "dead air," cherish her gift of gab."What's a Capulet?" Felton asked her recently. "Someone with a small size cap," was Sadie's assured reply. Felton: "What great events occurred between 1860 and 1870?" Sadie: "Terrible things. They had a centennial. Things was terrible. McKinley, Buchanan and Lincoln all was killed. It was a terrible centennial...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Ballet Suite (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 4 sides). Tchaikovsky's romantic overture lent itself to Tin Pan Alley thievery; this does not. Prokofiev makes Miss Capulet and Mr. Montague's troubles far more dissonant and disturbing. Performance: excellent...
...documentary details of British and French village life-the seining, fishing, pubbing, etc.-are shrewdly observed and handsomely photographed. The backgrounds and bit-players are so excellent, in fact, that the routine Montague-Capulet romance is an intrusion. With the exception of Franchise Rosay, famed French cinemactress (Carnival in Flanders, Portrait of a Woman) whose histrionics are not quite so subtle when she speaks her lines in English, the principal people in this film are less interesting than the fish...
...mill owner's stuffy, weak or shallow children (Dan Duryea, Marshall Thompson and Marsha Hunt respectively), becomes a bosom friend of his wife (Gladys Cooper), and falls in love with his one worthy son (Gregory Peck). After trying to help settle a labor dispute involving Montague Barrymore and Capulet Crisp, she withdraws to watch her lover endure a loveless marriage (Jessica Tandy). The movie, as usual, provides a happier ending than the book allowed. In spite of dead stretches and hammy streaks, it isn't a bad story; but it is hardly worth two hours' expensively handsome...
...WOULDN'T KILL PATIENCE- Carter Dickson - Morrow ($2). A variation, with herpetological trimmings, on the time-honored "sealed room" puzzle. Sir Henry Merrivale is the gustily amusing detective, and two young magicians supply a Montague-and-Capulet romance and divulge some interesting secrets of their craft. The solution of the central problem is disgustingly simple, but takes a deal of guessing...