Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hidden in a shadowy corner of the Luxembourg Gardens-where children, lovers and park bench sages still hold pre-eminence over visiting statesmen-stands a large, Government-owned bee colony. Its keeper, a white-bearded octogenarian named Ernest Baudu, lectures any stray stroller who will listen on the facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues...
...proved to the average man that religious plays need not be boring. It got the chance during the war, when Browne directed a band of professionals called the Pilgrim Players. Community groups got interested in their morale-builders-Murder in the Cathedral, Geoffrey Whiteworth's Father Noah, Ernest Rhys's The Deluge-decided to do something themselves. Sheffield led the way. In 1943 its interdenominational Association of Christian Communities hired a professional actress as dramatic adviser, has since organized plays with groups varying from mothers' unions to tough boys' clubs in the slums...
...Warner's offerings include an undistinguished musical-biography (Night and Day), a couple of tired remakes (Of Human Bondage, One More Tomorrow), two thin little comedies (Janie Gets Married, Two Guys from Milwaukee). Gone to other studios are Warner's oldtime skilled craftsmen Darryl Zanuck, Hal Wallis, Ernest Lubitsch, William Dieterle, Mervyn...
...Bouffe (The Greedy Imp) on St. Gregoire Street, where a baby porker ran around nuzzling the legs of diners, and apple pie arrived flaming in rum at the tables. They gobbled up the bread sticks, vin ordinaire (and extraordinaire) and hors d'oeuvres at the Cafe Martin, Chez Ernest and Chez Stien...
Producer Walter Wanger and Director Jacques Tourneur have turned Ernest Haycox' slick, colorful, romantic Satevepost serial into a slick, colorful, romantic movie. If life in the old West was not really as much fun as this picture makes out, history is clearly at fault...