Word: hamlets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...atom and recount man's efforts to fly. Disney will also launch a TV spectacular called Johnny Tremain, about "events leading up to the American Revolution." Afternoon Film Festival and Famous Film Festival will serve up 46 J. Arthur Rank films never seen on TV. including Hamlet, A Queen Is Crowned, Genevieve, Hungry Hill...
Attempting to lend more dignity to beauty contests-an institution which the church has consistently opposed-the promoters of the Miss Italy contest at Rimini decided to put all entrants through a culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent...
...sleepy corn-and-cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
Died. Percy MacKaye, 81, white-maned "good grey poet of Gramercy Park," prolific author of masks, verse plays (The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark), poetry, essays and biography; in Cornish...
...hamlet is plunged into civic war over the question of who's lying-Fernandel, who wasn't there and swears that his son wasn't either, v. the unwed mother, who was there and moans that Fernandel's son was, too. Fernandel won't sell bread to his friends turned foes, and the scenes swarm relentlessly, with so many Proven-gal provincials running around like so many Provencal provincials with their bread cut off. The effect might be funnier if time and France's postwar moviemakers had not made stereotypes of them...