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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...
Except for the Negritos, the Filipinos are basically Malayan stock with a mixture of Caucasian and Mongolian. The U.S. Supreme Court once ruled that they are not Caucasians; the state of California has ruled that they are not Mongolians. The Filipinos' own smiling explanation: a god and goddess once inhabited the earth, got lonely and decided to create man. They fashioned a man out of clay and baked it in an oven, but it was overcooked and came out black. They tried another but it was undercooked and came out white. The third was cooked to a just-right...
Today Romans celebrate the ancient Meditrinalia, mysterious vintage festival, originally connected with Jupiter. On Saturday, while Harvard watches or listens to the football game, the Romans will celebrate Faunalia in honor of the Good Goddess. Unwilling to suspend publication for both holidays, the CRIMSON has compromised. There will be no Crime tomorrow...
...WORLD OVER A Show for a Goddess Pasht (or Pussy) is a powerful cat-goddess credited by ancient Egyptians-and by a few modern ones-with seeing all, knowing all, and observing human affairs with the somewhat malicious humor common to felines. Last week the world's minor crises, persisting amid its major preoccupations, presented quite a spectacle for Pasht (if she was still watching...
When Ava was assigned to play the goddess of love in One Touch of Venus, Sculptor Joseph Nicolosi was commissioned to do a statue of her. She began posing for him in a two-piece bathing suit, but he found that this interfered with his artist's conception of the foam-born one, so Ava obligingly removed the bathing-suit top. This, said Nicolosi, after working for a while, was better, but still not satisfactory. So Ava rolled the bottom of the suit down to G-string size, and Nicolosi turned out a magnificent, realistic statue. When a studio...