Word: mason
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topnotch cast, most of whom worked for less than their regular salaries to be identified with such a big "prestige" picture: Marlon Brando (Mark Antony), Louis Calhern (Caesar), James Mason (Brutus), John Gielgud (Cassius), Deborah Kerr (Portia), Greer Garson (Calpurnia). The screenplay, reportedly all Shakespeare, contains no "additional dialogue." Says Producer Houseman: "We kept it in black-and-white because there are certain parallels between this play and modern times. People associate dictators with black-and-white newsreel shots of them haranguing the crowds . . . Mussolini on the balcony, that sort of thing. With color, you lose that reality...
Democratic and Republican maneuvers in the South may mark the beginning of a "reconstruction" of the two-party system below the Mason-Dixon line, according to V. O. Key, Jr., professor of Government...
Then the convention elected Ollenhauer to succeed Schumacher as head of the party. A Socialist since his teens, Ollenhauer was born (1901) the son of a Magdeburg mason, and he came up the party ladder during Weimar Republic days. He fled from the Nazis, first to Prague, then to London, and returned home in September 1945. Pudgy, bespectacled, pipe-smoking Ollenhauer has little of Schumacher's tigerish fire, but he is just as stubborn...
...South had never seen anything like it. The Republican candidate for President, traditionally a figure who leaves the South to the Democrats, flew across the Mason-Dixon Line, winged over the cotton and tobacco lands of four states, dropped into six cities, spoke to 100.000 Southerners, showed himself to half a million...
...York, 38 hours and 3,595 miles after he had left, few Republican professionals were ready to claim that he had chipped off any of the Solid South's electoral votes. But he had won thousands of individual votes, and was making plans for more campaigning below the Mason-Dixon Line. Ike has a fighting chance to carry Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Virginia. In other Southern states, he has about as much chance as a Democrat has in Vermont: hardly...