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Dominican Bruckberger, basing his deductions on a study of early Christian history as well as the Bible, goes further than this. His reconstructed Mary Magdalene was a woman of wealth and beauty, and one of the ornaments of King Herod's court. Although a Jewess, she was Hellenized, and, like many among the upper classes in Palestine, considered herself as belonging to the rich but dying culture of Plato's Greece...
...call him Iron Rump, Lenin called him "an incurable dumb bell" and "the best file clerk in Russia." Behind every plodding step however, lies a record of a difficult task efficiently performed. Is the last of the Old Bolsheviks, the revolutionmakers, left in the innermost circle. Married to a Jewess (who has U.S. relatives); one daughter. Is fussy, pedantic loves music. Once considered most likely to succeed Stalin, now rates No. 3 in the government, but is not considered likely to rock the boat. Travel outside the Iron Curtain: considerable, the most of any men around Malenkov...
...well have kept his iron casque on his face all the time, for all the emotion he musters. Joan Fontaine is just as dull as Rowena. Elizabeth Taylor shows better, partly because you have only to look to appreciate her, and partly because her role of Rebecca, the Jewess accused of sorcery, offers a good deal more meat than the others. The only actors who make their lives come alive are the stalwarts of the Old Vic, Emlyn Williams and Felix Aylmer. They obviously feel more at home in the world of flowery speech...
...romantic fiction about the Saxon Knight Wilfred of Ivanhoe, who helped King Richard the Lionhearted reclaim the throne usurped by his villainous brother Prince John and the Norman traitors while Richard was away at the Crusades. In the course of his adventures, Ivanhoe also champions the black-eyed Jewess Rebecca, falsely accused by the Norman conspirators of sorcery, and wins the blonde Saxon Lady Rowena...
...most filmed of Scott's 25 novels. Other screen versions of Ivanhoe: a three-reel Hollywood production made in 1913 with King Baggot in the title role, and a 1913 British six-reeler entitled Rebecca the Jewess...