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...professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
...Bronston's heroes were not Spanish. So, to smooth his position in Iberia and to dazzle the world at large, he poured the $10 million and every additional cent he could muster into a biography of Spain's national hero, El Cid Campeador. He hired Charlton Ben-Heston and Sophia Loren. He acquired thousands of extras from the Spanish army. He erected cities, opened rivers, and reproduced 11th century Spain. Money meant nothing. By now, he had Pierre du Pont and a titanic Manhattan bank standing behind him like attentive janizaries...
Rome Refallen. He has followed El Cid with 55 Days at Peking (TIME, Sept. 14). An $800,000 Peking rose out of the rainless plains northwest of Madrid only to be razed by fire at the picture's climax, with Ava Gardner and Charlton Ming-Heston caught in the fumes. Now he is filming The Fall of the Roman Empire (Sophia Loren, James Mason, Alec Guinness), and next he will re-create The Circus, Paris 1900 and The French Revolution...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). President's Lady, the story of Rachel and Andrew Jackson (Susan Hayward, Charlton Heston...
...Days at Peking. The Boxer Rebellion gets the wide-screen treatment, and the result is a full-scale war. Among the foreign devils who make the Chinese so mad are David Niven, Ava Gardner, Charlton Heston and Paul Lukas...