Word: idolizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine, but results were slow. In the early winter of 1901, while Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines limped toward Broadway, 21-year-old Ethel Barrymore was sick with fear. And she suffered doubly because she had been born to the stage. Her father, Maurice Barrymore, was a matinee idol. Her actress mother, Georgiana Drew Barrymore, and her uncle, John Drew, two of the topflight actors of the day, could trace their lineage back to the strolling players of Elizabethan England. Anxious not to disgrace the family, Ethel asked herself over and over again: "Why am I doing this...
ALMOST since the day he became king in 1951, Belgium's young Baudouin has been something less than an idol to his subjects. Dominated by his father, ex-King Leopold III, Baudouin was stiff and shy, seldom made his public feel any warmth toward him. Then came a three-week tour of the U.S.-without father. And a stunning surprise for the Belgians when Baudouin returned to Brussels last week. See FOREIGN NEWS, The Americanized King...
Among the things Briton White writes about are hunting, the schooling of hunting birds and beasts (Falconry, White insists, "is not a hobby or an amusement: it is a rage "), and the odd people and places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior...
...eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named 40 or more children after him. High point of a flamboyant career was his 1951 marriage to German-born Elizabeth Ziegler. Ten jazz bands played wedding music; flocks of jazz fans sang and danced in the streets; doves and champagne surrounded the couple...
...heels of East of Eden, the Brattle's showing this week is the second in the trilogy of James Dean's acting epics, Rebel Without a Cause*. Originally released shortly after Dean's untimely death four years ago this movie, more than any other, established him as the acting idol and representative of an entire generation...