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...time, Laughton fiddled with plans to bathe each actor in a pool of light, or to sit them on ladders with enormous trains of cloth. He finally settled for simplicity. Recalling the "drama" of intent musicians turning the pages of their scores as they play, he perched the actors on high stools, got four music stands and four outsized, green-bound scripts to place on each stand. There is no curtain. Laughton merely walks on stage, makes a few pleasant, informal remarks, and introduces the other players. They get on their stools, open their books, and the play begins...
Instead of the frayed and buttonless clothes which he wears around the home palace grounds to save money, the miserly Nizam wore a well-pressed and spotless outfit-yellow turban, tweed coat, loose white trousers and black shoes. He peeled $1,000 off his own bundle (at least $200 million), laid in a supply of tea, cakes, nuts, ice cream, tomato juice and lemon squash, and gave an elegant garden party for New Delhi's 400, among them junketing Eleanor Roosevelt and India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The Nizam gathered six sons and four daughters around...
...entire student body for January 16. In the evening of that day the discussion in the over-crowded auditorium maximum is still proceeding, when the first wounded are brought back by their friends. They had moved to the cinema, and while demonstrating there, criminal police in civilian cloth began using billy-sticks. The students, unaware that they were confronting members of the police, began to defend themselves, at which moment the uniformed police began to interfere, too. The son of the town mayor is knocked down with the shout: "You socialist swines...
...their meaning lies in the fact that, to encourage the cloth trade, Parliament had passed an Act that all corpses were to be wrapped in British woollen...
...might have made things easier for himself by a step obvious to any politician. To court transitory popularity, he could have curtailed his long-range hydroelectric and agricultural projects, which cannot be expected to bring results for five or six years, and poured out millions to buy food and cloth. Nehru raised taxes, stuck to his plans, and went into the country to sell his dream...