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...boost demand, the makers of little cigars, which are still allowed to be advertised on the home screen, expanded their promotions in print and television. Cigars like Lorillard's Omega, U.S. Tobacco's Tall N' Slim and American Brands' Antonio y Cleopatra became increasingly popular. Sales of little cigars reached 878 million in the last fiscal year, and in recent months have been running about 46% ahead of that level. One reason is that last September R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., the nation's largest cigarette maker, brought out a new brand called Winchester. Ever since...
PROFESSIONAL film critics and motion picture moguls have long proclaimed the death of the Big Hollywood movie. Grand spectacles like Intolerance, Ben Hur, War and Peace and Cleopatra are said to be relics of another era that has ended because of changed audience tastes and a lack of money in the large studios. But each year there are new examples of the staying-power and constant appeal of such pictures. Nicholas and Alexandra proves that the public hasn't tired of gazing humbly at larger-than-life historical personalities on the big silver screen...
This month alone, she has already performed a trilogy of operatic queens at the New York City Opera that amply confirms her own regal gifts: Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (see cover), Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or and Cleopatra in Julius Caesar. Starting this week she and the New York City Opera will recreate all three during a three-week guest stand in Los Angeles (planned for next spring is a new production by Beverly and the company of another Donizetti queen, Maria Stuarda). Early next month, she will give two performances of Lucia...
...person," wrote Shakespeare of the great Queen Cleopatra, "it beggar'd all description." Right, says Edward C. Rochette, editor of the Numismatist. It beggared all description because it was so ugly. His evidence: coins struck during Cleopatra's reign and bearing her image. "Cleo was homely as a toad," claims Rochette. "Do you think a queen of her stature would permit issuance of coins depicting her as homely, if she were a raving beauty...
...head of the entire 20th Century-Fox empire. He pioneered revolutionary techniques like CinemaScope and presided over the production of dozens of screen classics, including The Robe, The Snake Pit and Gentleman's Agreement. Blamed for massive losses incurred partly by the $30 million epic Cleopatra, he resigned as Fox president in 1962 and later took the helm of the Prudential-Grace shipping lines...