Word: dame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Robert's brow is the first to take a fever dew for this belle dame sans merci, and soon the two are sighing full sore. John begins to thirst after the lady, too, but being a practical fellow, quenches himself at her serving maid. Guy comes along a little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
Edith Evans, who has played Lady Bracknell on the stage, is magnificently victorian. Gaudily-gowned and rouged, Dame Evans is an awe-inspiring matriarch who distrusts everything but the "solid quality" of money. Screeching and bellowing, she commands both the characters and the film with the delicacy of a moose...
Except that she "always wanted to be the boss of everything," Ros showed no particular early theatrical bent. She went to convent schools (Notre Dame Academy in Waterbury and Marymount College in Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y.), and found she could get passing grades without half trying. Instead of going ice-skating on winter afternoons, she sneaked off to sigh at Rudolph Valentino movies...
...Chicago, the Indiana basketball team, Big Ten champion and ranked No. 1 in the nation, lived up to its press notices by beating Notre Dame, 79-66, to reach the semifinal round of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament. Other semifinalists: Louisiana State, Kansas, Washington...
...dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only won the Order of Lichtenburg (which entitles her to be called a Dame-a promotion from Madam), she has also won Lichtenburg's handsome Diplomat Sanders...