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...ancient Rome the Vestal Virgins were six daughters of patrician families who were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs...
True, we have our share of eccentrics . . . but let me assure you that everyone in the Los Angeles area and especially those living in the San Gabriel Valley knew about and feared the exploits of Space Suiter Forrest Ray Colson...
...Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar isn't a horse." Toynbee did admit that some literary motorcars should try to be more like horses. "When Auden writes, 'Gabriel-I didn't mean to let that name out,' or when Miss Sitwell writes of 'Emily-colored hands,' they are clearly cheating," he said...
...evening last week a woman clerk, who had just started home after her day's work at a San Gabriel, Calif, supermarket, saw a frightening apparition climb out of an automobile at the rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
This posed a stickler for Shaw's trusted friend, Producer Gabriel (Pygmalion, Caesar and Cleopatra) Pascal, who had to stretch the two-acter, Androcles and the Lion, to feature length. Pascal finally wangled a grudging O.K. from the trustees of Shaw's estate to raise the alteration rate to 25%, and fattened up the script with lines borrowed from Shaw's own preface. With the biggest barrier hurdled, Androcles was only two weeks behind schedule at RKO last week...