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Women, notably Ruth and Esther, have figured prominently and heroically in Jewish history, but not in the temple or synagogue. The Apostle Paul, a Pharisee, carried the male tradition of Judaism over into Christianity when he wrote: "Women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinated, even as the law says...
Pagan Love Song (MGM) casts Esther Williams adrift in the shallows of a musicomedy set in Tahiti (and filmed on Hawaiian locations). Esther plays a well-to-do Tahitian half-caste who meets, loses and finally gets a plantation heir (Howard Keel) newly arrived from Ohio. In the full flush of health, she glows in almost every tint of the Technicolor spectrum, swims not only on the water and under it but also (in a dream sequence) in the sky. In lieu of comedy, Actress Williams and Singer Keel laugh with unconvincing gaiety on the flimsiest excuse. The score consists...
...people's morale in the face of an expected Communist offensive. Bao Dai arrived in his C-45, which also carried a Scotty named Bubi, two bottles of King George Scotch, two guitars, three tennis rackets, 16 pieces of miscellaneous baggage and a cute, redheaded airline hostess named Esther. Wearing his inevitable dark glasses and a natty grey flannel suit, Bao Dai drove along roads lined with French Tommy-gunners facing the long grass where Communist snipers might be hiding...
...Artists' Group of America picked the country's ten most beautiful women. Among them: Elizabeth Taylor ("Face and grace of an angel"), Ava Gardner ("Temptingly curved bosom and hip lines"), Esther Williams ("Flawlessly formed jaws and thighs"), Ginger Rogers ("Fine bold chin"), Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt ("Shapely ears"), and Mary Pickford ("Everybody's 'favorite aunt' type...
...Esther Forbes argued that escape, a favorite object of complaint, is actually a good thing. "We all need escape now and then," she said, "but what we escape into is important." A novel is predigested, selected, and orderly--and it may have a thought-provoking moral, she said...