Word: friar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human rights. Robin saves Much, the Miller's son (Herbert Mundin). from a poaching charge; fights his way out of bristling Nottingham castle; gets poll-thwacked off a foot-log by doughty Little John (Alan Hale, a veteran of the Fairbanks Robin Hood) and ducked by puddingy Friar Tuck (Eugene Pallette), takes the huffy-puffy High Sheriff of Nottingham (Melville Cooper) neatly into camp; betters Prince John's best in archery, intrigue and repartee...
Tchaikovsky's sombre Romeo & Juliet Overture usually takes 16 min., or four or five sides of phonograph records, to present the strife between Montagues & Capulets, the love between their offspring, the appearance of Friar Laurence, the death of the lovers. By cutting whole pages of repetition and development, Conductor Kostelanetz will give casual listeners this week a pretty good idea what Tchaikovsky was driving at in only 285 sec. flat. Likewise the overture to The Barber of Seville will be reduced from 7 min. to 1½ min. and the late George Gershwin's 16-min. American...
...ineffectual mayor is dead and going therefore into mourning! The picture is replete with hilarious situation, good lines (there are English titles), and piercing caricatures. Alerme as the Burgomaster, Francoise Rosay as his wife, significantly listed in the cast as "Madame Burgomaster," and Louis Jouvet as the sanctimonious, swirking friar who with tongue in check calls a gift of sweetmeats to himself "an homage to God," are all in the best French high comedy manner...
...Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies, disgusted with their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke, his hungry friar, his lecherous little dwarf and all his soldiers are royally entertained. Next morning, the strangers troop away across the plains and Boom's burghers come out to face their wives. The Mayor's wife makes a generous speech giving him the credit for saving the town from the horrors...
...Maine and Nova Scotia coasts, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore last week and once more climbed back on to the front page. His seagoing sideburns were gone before he showed himself in range of a camera. A few minutes after dark his chartered schooner Sewanna dropped anchor in Friar's Bay below the Roosevelt cottage on Campobello Island, N. B. Forty red-coated Canadian police drawn up on the dock snapped him a brisk salute as the sleepy President went in to supper...