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Died. Sir Herbert Atkinson Barker, 81, self-styled "manipulative surgeon" whose skill in repairing dislocated joints and stiff knees with his fingers brought him fame, fortune, knighthood and-after the orthodox had long spurned him as a degreeless bonesetter-professional recognition; in Lancaster, England.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

The Flame and the Arrow (Warner) gives ex-Acrobat Burt Lancaster something he really knows how to do. Almost a spoof of the kind of swashbuckling gymnastics that made Douglas Fairbanks famous, the movie is built around a tumbling act. Feebly disguised as a band of gay rogues in 12th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

The script, huffing & puffing to find excuses for these athletic feats, tells an opéra-bouffe story involving Lancaster's "free men of the mountains," a foreign tyrant (Frank Allenby), and a fair lady (Virginia Mayo). Happily, their contrived heroics are spiked with some unconscious comedy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

Lancaster is probably the best acrobat now employed as an actor. After a series of gangster films, he obviously relishes his promotion from a hood to a Robin Hood. But dialogue still throws him, and his modern side-mouthings ("I'll meetcha inna tavern") sound a little disenchanting in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

There'll Always Be a Drayneflete, by Osbert Lancaster. A witty satire on the British way of life as seen through the architectural history of an imaginary country town (TIME, June 26).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable, Jul. 31, 1950 | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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