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Montserrat (adapted from the French of Emmanuel Robles by Lillian Hellman; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Gilbert Miller) is a young Spanish officer sent to Venezuela in 1812 to help capture Bolivar. Actually, the idealistic Montserrat is helping to hide him-and known to be. Aware that torture will never make Montserrat talk, his ruthless colonel adopts a crueler course: he collects six innocent townspeople who are to be shot unless Montserrat speaks up. Montserrat, though horrified, refuses; and a long, harrowing ordeal begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...superstates or around the Floating Fortresses which guard strategic spots on the sea lanes. Nonetheless, London life is inexpressibly vile-a combination of super-Crippsian austerity and Dachau terrorism. To fall in love is a crime; all passion must be spent on nationalistic fervor and savage hatred of "Emmanuel Goldstein," the Trotzky-like leader of the anti-party underground. All adoration must be devoted to "Big Brother," the Stalinesque dictator whom no one has ever seen, but whose "black-haired, black-mustachio'd" visage, pregnant with "power and mysterious calm," stares from walls in the streets and living rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where the Rainbow Ends | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

College debaters defeated Tufts and won the Temple Emmanuel Brotherhood Trophy last night at the Temple at Lawrence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Win Trophy | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

Object Lesson. In Montreal, Night Watchman Emmanuel Dame explained to police how three robbers had been able to take him by surprise: he had been absorbed in a crime magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...Quelle Horreur!" At 5:30 on the evening of Sept. 30, 1869, France's Empress left St. Cloud with her staff, her pets and her retainers to board the imperial yacht Aigle at Venice and sail to Suez. On the way they called on Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: La Reine & the Empress | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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