Word: grecians
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...Basil Wright's extraordinarily beautiful Song of Ceylon, made for a British tea association. The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue...
...bastard of noble blood leaves Oxford to seek his fortune in far Cathay. Here he meets the Khan's famed general, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and forgets the haughty girl at home in favor of the harem slave, Maryam, daughter of a fraternizing English crusader and his Grecian love. Author Costain's romantic actors are hardly more three-dimensional than characters in a high-grade comic strip, but the elaborate 13th-Century stage sets are well painted...
Isle of the Dead (RKO Radio) is a shuddery set of improvisations suggested by the famed, funereal painting of Swiss Romanticist Arnold Bocklin. Quarantined on a tomb-haunted island off the Grecian coast, after one of them dies of the plague, is a strange crew, including a Greek general (Boris Karloff), a sinister peasant woman (Helene Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many...
...Cincinnati's astonishment, the Trollopes proceeded to erect what one traveler described as "the great deformity of the city" - a brick bazaar with "Gothic windows, Grecian pillars ... a Turkish dome, and Egyptian devices." Therein, they planned to sell the gewgaws of Manchester and Birmingham to the savages of Cincinnati...
...evening dresses disclosed two silhouette trends: the slinky and the frilly. There were pencil-slim skirts, tunic-length jackets, hip draperies, towering hats, fantastic turbans, flowing Grecian folds, bows, bustles, Tudor sleeves. For day wear, there were misty Scotch tweeds in soft blues, green-greys, yellows, reds. The most fetching suit style had waist-length lapels and waistline tucks giving a blouse effect in the back...