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...Gilford) is a Harpo Marxist mute with whom no 15th century lady in waiting is more than half safe. Queen Agravaine (Jane White) is a jawing virago for whom possession is nine-tenths of motherhood's law. It begins to look as if their son, poor fretful Prince Dauntless (Joe Bova), will always be mama's boy. And then one day Princess Winnifred (Carol Burnett) swims the moat. Winnifred ("My friends call me 'Fred' ") rescues Dauntless from his possessive mother, but only after Fred's friends have built up the queen's under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical Off Broadway, may 25, 1959 | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Seth Field, manager of said theatre, recently received a visit from one of these dauntless diehards (me), and answered the ageless query, "Will it come to the U.T.?" with surprising clarity. Mr. Field, B.U. '37, said "yes." Pressed for details, he added...

Author: By David Royce, | Title: Let Them Eat Popcorn | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

...occasion to die. Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife, a dauntless lady with a superior figure. Finally, there was Edward Vanbrugh (born 1891), the narrator's own father, who returned after long and distinguished service in World War I to a wife whom he had known only three days. She met him at Victoria Station, and the two went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...Roots of Heaven (Darryl F. Zanuck; 20th Century-Fox), adapted from Remain Gary's international bestseller (TIME, Jan. 20), appears to be one of those movies that are more exciting to make than to see. To make this one, Holly woodsman Darryl Zanuck and 130 dauntless actors and technicians were flown into darkest Africa to the searing barrens beyond the Hill of the Demons in the French Cameroons. The demons did not appear personally, but the place was hell, all right. By day the temperature stood as high as 140°, at night it never sank below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1958 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...fact remains that when Europe lived in terror and tyranny, the household of dauntless Germaine de Staël earned the honor of being regarded (in Stendhal's words) as "the Grand Assizes of European opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Circe | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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