Word: mason
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stewart Granger heads the cast of classicists in the dual lead of king and commoner, Deborah Kerr is the provocative princess, James Mason the invidious villian, Jane Greer, a femina ex machina, and Louis Calhern the cunning colonel and tutor of tyrants. Louis Stone, who played the hero in the original version, appears briefly as the bishop...
...picture is a take off, on European intrigue at the close of the last century. The plot, hingeing on the daring double dupe, is complicated but clear. There is a fantastic fencing fiesta at the end, staged by Mason and Granger, both fencers of the old school. The gallant does not get the girl, an excellent theory of the new school. Greed and honor, love and duty, chivalry and chauvanism clash on the field of melodrama. Good wins, as it should, but then, bad doesn't loose. The villain escapes, as he should and there are several beautiful women whose...
Edward S. Mason, dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will lecture today on "Raw Materials and National Power." On Friday Derwent S. Whittlesey, professor of Geography, will lecture on "Geography in World Affairs...
This Prisoner of Zenda often stresses purple prose at the expense of red-blooded action, but all in all, it is a colorful version of a popular adventure tale. Granger gives a lively performance as both king and commoner. James Mason seems to enjoy swaggering through his role as the dastardly Rupert of Hentzau, and provides the picture with its most athletic sequence as he duels Rassendyll up & down Zenda castle. Lewis Stone, 72, who played the dual lead in the 1922 silent version, is here cast in a minor role as the cardinal...
...Mason-Dixon line runs squarely down the center of the Republican civil right plank. We believe, say the Republicans, in "enacting federal legislation to further just and equitable treatment in the area of discriminatory employment practices." This takes care of the North. But, the Republicans go on, "Federal action should not duplicate state efforts to end such practices, should not set up another huger bureaucracy." And this satisfies the South. Actually, the Republicans have taken no stand on federal FEPC at all, nor on anti-poll tax, anti-lynching, and anti-filibuster legislation...