Word: gun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bursting with the pride of nationhood, some 5,000 Israelis kindled the first festive beacon at dusk beside the Judean hilltop grave of Theodor Herzl, founder of Zionism. Then, after a ten-gun salute boomed off Jordan's echoing hills (all heavily reinforced with Arab soldiery), 5,000 crack Israeli warriors took pride of martial place by parading through the City of David with gleaming tanks, guns and armored vehicles, in defiance of the armistice clause that prohibits any large number of troops and weapons within six miles of the Jordanian frontier...
...heady gamble, but Evans' Hamlet was a whacking success, and Hallmark was credited with breaking TV's time barrier. Since then, Hall of Fame has put on some of TV's best dramatic shows, ranging from The Corn Is Green to Annie Get Your Gun and Twelfth Night, with such able actors as Mary...
...madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies, I won't need my gun"), and a bowler-hatted dandy comes onstage to sing his epitaph as "the kind of fellow that fellow men like...
...Daddybear," lisped his gun-moll, "ah'm getting cold...
Noel Coward provides three tales of domestic tribulation, some gatling-gun dialogue and "sophisticated wit," and several of Britain's most capable comic artists take it from there--to make the current Brattle fare well worth indulgence any time this week...