Word: catacomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anouilh puts his characters into wigs, and they traverse the centuries back to the French Terror of 1793. The play begins ten years after the end of World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor...
...white houses and for all its musty castles, can't touch the Hudson!" She met six sheiks but was unimpressed. "I prefer a nice Yale man." Sightseeing in Alexandria was on the dull side: "If anybody at a party ever asks me if I've seen a catacomb I can say yes, but that's about all I got out of the experience...
Tovarich explores new frontiers of boredom in an unmusical noncomedy. As a White Russian grand duchess posing as a housemaid in Paris in 1927, lovely Vivien Leigh does a Charleston to remember, and otherwise lights up the proceedings like a matchflare in a catacomb...
...Agent in Heaven." "St. Philomena" was "discovered" on May 24, 1802 in the catacomb of St. Priscilla on Rome's Via Saleria Nova as the skeleton of a 13-to 15-year-old girl with a badly fractured skull. On her grave was the cryptic inscription: LUMENA PAXTE CUM FI. The letters of the inscription were on tiles, and scholars came to the conclusion that they had somehow become misplaced-perhaps by an artisan who could not read-and should have been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed...