Word: jaye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) had a 20-year run on radio, and should be notably successful on TV. As before, Dr. I.Q. (Jay Owen) fires his questions from a theater stage while his four assistants track down contestants in the audience ("I have a lady in the balcony, Doctor!"). The quiz payoff is made in silver dollars, and the questions are as hard as ever ("Name the states that border on the Mississippi River"). With its dramatic values considerably heightened by television, Dr. I.Q. is not likely to remain unsponsored for long...
Victor Mature, as the Greek slave Demetrius, is believable in a role similar to many he has played before. Jay Robinson, however, is scarcely plausible as a crotchety and petulant Caligula. While many have thought this emperor a monster, Robinson makes him a caricature of a contemporary egghead...
...epicurean Roman grudgingly won over to evangelical Christianity, highborn Burton is the successful rival of Prince Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek slave (Victor Mature), Burton is exiled to Palestine, where he lolls decadently in the baths and drinks wine while his slave Mature becomes a convert to the new religion...
...close together that they cannot be heard separately. Even apparently simple songs contain quick musical details that slip past human ears. On studying the visual records, the scientists found that many birds are musical gymnasts, playing on their vocal organs as if they were string quartets. The blue jay, for instance, can sing what amounts to a major chord, holding a low note and a high note simultaneously; then after a hundredth of a second, he adds a middle note. The wood thrush can hold as many as four simultaneous notes...
...Married. Jay Gould III, 32, namesake and great-grandson of the fabulous railroad financier; and Lina Romay, 29, dark-eyed songstress of stage (Michael Todd's Peep Show) and screen (The Man Behind the Gun); he for the third time, she for the second; in Los Angeles...