Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again, the Communists had failed to reckon with the Church. No blaring slogans or challenging invective came from Catholic pulpits. But on Sunday (i.e., election day) morning, cures throughout France preached that "to abstain from the polls is treason." The congregations went out from Mass to cast their...
Haile Selassie's titles used to sound absurd when he was a deposed royal out cast - Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah. . . . Last week Haile Selassie arrived in Naples, a dignified, honored potentate passing through the beaten country of his onetime conquerors. Only the day before, another king had sailed out of the same harbor, bound for voluntary exile in Egypt.* The world could read the disgrace of the House of Savoy in the titles that the abdicated Italian king had just shed from his thin, aging shoulders - Vittorio Emanuele (Ferdinand Maria Gennaro...
...Morgan's Advice. In Salome, her most sensational European role, Jeritza literally cast off all seven veils. New Yorkers had to settle for less because the late John Pierpont Morgan, a Met backer, had Salome banished from the repertory at the advice of his pastor. This annoyed Jeritza into singing a concert version of the opera, which was at least wanton enough to give New Yorkers a vivid idea what they were missing...
Only Bette Davis, by sincere overacting, gets this piece going at all; the rest of the cast is about as interesting as wet wash. A limp example: the uncle (Charlie Ruggles) who continually maunders, "Is there anything I can do?" Many cinemaddicts may yearn to snarl, "Yes. go away...
Into the two brief acts of the play Synge has packed all the gaiety and excitement and superstitious poetry of the Irish peasant, in the same way that has made his "Playboy" a modern classic. And the Idler cast's performances go completely beyond the amateur level. It is difficult to describe or choose between the interpretations of Seabury G. Quinn '47 as the venial priest, Miss Nora Millard as the tinker's sharp-witted bride-to-be, Miss Elaine Limpert as his philosophical, besotted mother, and Charles Raphael as the tinker himself...