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...forestall an unauthorized American production of their latest operetta, The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan arranged for virtually simultaneous opening nights in England and America. Now, 104 years later, Producer Joseph Papp's $12 million movie version of Pirates, based on his updated Broadway production, has received another dual premiere: on television and in theaters. On Feb. 18, Universal Pictures simultaneously showed the movie on 17 pay-per-view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television...
Although there are no plans to show Pirates again on pay television, the dual-release technique will undoubtedly be tried again. Just as Gilbert and Sullivan's pirates eventually become assimilated into polite society, this approach may become a custom in years to come. Les Brown, editor in chief of Channels magazine, even predicts that pay TV's customers will increasingly include the theaters themselves: "I expect to see antennas springing up on moviehouses, which will thus become videohouses as well...
February 25, 12:44 a.m.--A male undergraduate returned to his forth floor room in Gilbert Hall and found his belongings had been disturbed, and a $150 watch as well as $5 in cash had been stolen. A 13-year-old youth wearing a blue coal with a red "V" on it was seen leaving the room earlier that evening...
...children's lilting voices rose in unison: '"Dis long time gal me nevah see yah." Gilbert and Sullivan it was not, and the Gal the children were seeing and serenading was no ordinary dame but Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her Other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. At the crowded National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica, a children's chorus a thousand strong was singing a Jamaican folk song that the Queen had requested. The occasion...
Decades ago, a controversial novel stirred England and America. Its action took place in 1984, and its theme was the encroachments of a future authoritarian state. The book was The Napoleon of Notting Hill, written in 1904, when George Orwell was an infant. The author was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, a man perpetually in advance of, and behind, his time...