Word: liverpool
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. She seemed too good to be true in A Taste of Honey. In her second picture, Liverpool's Rita Tushingham, 22, seems even better than that: a girl who both acts like an angel and looks like a star. Peter Finch plays her middle-aged lover and plays him well, but Rita's dazzling presence turns Finch to sparrow...
...eyes are the eyes of Rita Tushingham, the 22-year-old daughter of a Liverpool grocer who in her first screen role, the pregnant tomboy in A Taste of Honey (1962), played like an adolescent Duse but seemed almost too good to be true. In this picture she demonstrates beyond doubt that she is no one-time wonder. She is a woman to the camera born, a magnificent natural actress with a face of inexhaustible expressiveness, the face of an English Gioconda...
...down to write an exam or cut up a dogfish," he says, "there I was with a Brahms symphony running through my head." In 1958, after studying conducting for three years at Vienna's Academy of Music, he entered Britain's international conductors' competition at Liverpool, walked off with first prize. This launched him on a series of guest-conducting engagements throughout Europe. Back in the late 1950s, when the San Francisco Orchestra's conductor, Josef Krips, first heard Mehta in Vienna, he cried: "The next Toscanini has been born...
...Please Confirm." A Jesuit priest born of English parents in Le Havre, Roberts once headed an archdiocese -but gave it up. In 1937, while teaching in Liverpool, he was told by a reporter of-his appointment as Archbishop of Bombay. Tongue in cheek, he wired Rome to "please confirm" the appointment. Thirteen years later, having become convinced that India's principal see ought to be occupied by an Indian, he resigned in favor of Valerian Gracias, and settled down at the Farm Street church in London's Mayfair...
...five Sephardi and five Ashkenazi sages. Since 1959, the chair of the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi has been vacant; last week the 125-man Rabbinical Electoral College chose for the post Dr. Iser Judah Unterman, 77, white-bearded Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa and onetime Chief Rabbi of Liverpool. They also re-elected the Sephardi incumbent, Dr. Yitzhak Nissim...