Word: hurs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throw-back to the days of "Ben-Hur," "Sign of the Cross" is a mammoth in the tradition of the twenties, when producers undertook to carry out such colossal, stupendous ideas as filming the Bible. It demonstrates the obvious fact that sensuous revels cannot be mixed with martyrs to produce sincere religious inspiration, and it proves that the genuine fervor of the Passion Play cannot be transferred to the screen...
...Indianian needed to be told that George Ade was one of the Hoosier greats: Riley, Booth Tarkington, the McCutcheons (Cartoonist John T. and Graustark's George Barr), Meredith Nicholson, Lew ("Ben Hur") Wallace. Indianians knew him too as Purdue's No. 1 alumnus, and "Sigma Chi's Modern Patron Saint." He had lived there 30 years as a Hoosier squire, though he wintered in Florida-he said the Midwest had no climate, "just an assortment of unexpected weather...
Francis Xavier Bushman, 60-year-old matinee idol, got his first good film part in 15 years-playing Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch in the forthcoming Wilson. Bushman was a feverish Romeo in Hollywood's first Shakespeare (1916), a furious Messala in Ben Hur (1923), claims to have made and spent...
...stage performance of Boris Godunoff, which opened the Metropolitan Opera's diamond jubilee season last week, Critic Downes was right. The horse, a splendid specimen of white charger from the Ben Hur Stables, succeeded repeatedly in bringing down the house. On several occasions as his rider, Tenor Armand Tokatyan, soared toward a top note, the animal turned a ripely expressive backside to the audience and obliged Tokatyan to sing squarely into the scenery...
...must to all men, death came last week to 74-year-old, white-maned Aleš Hrdlička (pronounced Alesh Hur-dlich-ka), second great physical anthropologist to die within a year. Like Franz Boas (TIME, Jan. 4), the Smithsonian Institution's scholar was no dull academician, although even on trips to the ends of the earth he wore "gates ajar" collars. Hrdlička did much to disprove Nazi race dogma. For many summers he hunted in Alaska and the Aleutians for proof that aborigines came to America over those steppingstones. He denied that high brows indicate...