Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grizzled old desert sheiks, who remembered the brief days of victory, wept as Sayed Abdul Rahman cut the orange ribbon across the tomb's doorway. Inside, a green, red and blue glass dome cast gaudy light on a glass chandelier and handsome Persian rug (the gift of Neighbor Emperor Haile Selassie). Sayed Abdul Rahman contemplated his father's inlaid sandalwood coffin, which he claimed to have found in the ruins of the old tomb last year...
...have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Mr. Young and Miss Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man & wife; Susan Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Miss Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads. The jury, for instance, may be caricatured, but it is frightening to consider that such a group holds in its hands a life even so patently worthless as Mr. Young...
...opera houses, which will still supply the voices and the size and the glamour for Mozart and Verdi and Wagner and their lessers. The composers seem to be aiming in that direction, for Benjamin Britten, as well as Menotti, has written operas for chamber orchestra and small cast. Britten's second, "The Rape of Lucretia," is on a Chicago stage now. If it comes to New York next year and is as much of a success as "The Medium" (still going strong on ticket sales), a new and happy method for reviving the art of opera-writing may have been...
...cast has consumed onstage some 1,170 Ibs. of coffee, 800 gallons of milk, 3,200 loaves of bread, 19,000 oranges and 2,200 boxes of breakfast cereal...
...fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering in mid-Atlantic." Perhaps the Daily Express meant to be kinder: "A piece that you [should] . . . see whenever something in the news makes you ponder that pregnant question: The Americans, are they human...