Word: halberds
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...plot turns upon a lost diamond of great price, but mostly the film is a string of lively, unrelated escapades. Granger plays the picaresque gentleman with style, and seems equally at home embracing a flamenco dancer, dodging thrown knives, or winning a duel with a halberd-swinging smuggler. Jon Whiteley, who distinguished himself in last year's The Little Kidnappers (TIME, Sept. 6), proves again that Britain still has the world monopoly on believable child stars...
...daft grandeur of that Medicean cinemera. Much of the malice, many of the rumors, and most of the moral solemnity which are directed against her tell less about Lolly Parsons than about the loss of heart, toughness and humor in the changing world around her. She is wielding a halberd among the gas-masked, and the lawyers of war do not approve...
...second mural depicts the legend known as "The Twilight of the Gods". Here the final battle between Gods and Giants is taking place, with the Gods ranged on the left, armed with spears and halberds, facing the Giants on the right, who are fitted out with gas masks, cylinders and a flame thrower. Mr. Rubenstein is attempting to represent the attack of the Giants on Asgard, the home of the Gods, where such a great struggle took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack...
Silver trumpets fanfared. The royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
Jeanne d'Arc, on horseback, accompanied by an army of archers, halberd-bearers and trumpeters, made her annual triumphant entry into La Place Saint Suplice, Paris. This revived pageant of the middle ages is now an intrinsic part of La Fête de Saint Germain...