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...Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King of the Burgundians. All were written in contemporary French . . . which . . . certainly . . . made it easier for [the purchaser] to read them. . . . Lucas...
...annual poll taken by Film Daily, a most reliable motion-picture trade publication, lists the selections of 559 critics and commentators throughout the country. Only one foreign film (Henry V) was chosen for the "ten best" list, and only three importations (Caesar and Cleopatra, The Seventh Veil, Blithe Spirit) were cited on the honor roll of 51 pictures...
Rank's Caesar & Cleopatra ($2,250,000), the only foreign film to squeeze into the top 60, barely made it (No. 56)-below Two Guys from Milwaukee but above Canyon Passage. Henry V ($700,000 with only ten engagements) was the first real dent, Variety noted, that Shakespeare ever made on the U.S. box office. The Seventh Veil ($2 million) was the "first foreign production to honestly break into the consciousness of the average U.S. filmgoer...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains keep Shaw's wit from being buried under several million dollars worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...
Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly swapped by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Technicolored Egypt (TIME...