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...MASON New York City
...Technicolored pastiche of symbolism, the supernatural and old romantic claptrap. Filmed picturesquely in Spain by Coproducer-Scripter-Director Albert Lewin, the movie begins by pairing a modem Pandora (Ava Gardner) with the legendary Dutchman himself (James Mason). From there it goes on to bullfighting, reincarnation, suicide, auto-racing, murder, archaeology, an insistent verse by Omar Khayyam and a couple of interacting love triangles...
...Pandora, Actress Gardner is a cruelly flighty American girl who drives men to distraction at a Spanish Mediterranean resort. She is also the very image of the Dutch wife for whose murder, four centuries earlier, Mason is doomed to sail the seas until he can find a woman willing to die for him. Omar Khayyam's moving finger, worked to the bone by Scripter Lewin, brings the two together during the brief interval (once every seven years) in which Mason's curse permits him to make port...
...keeps describing what is all too visible on the screen, and the camera catches some revealing glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar's finger solves this high-flown problem. Only then, having writ for 123 long minutes, does the moving finger move mercifully...
...most famous of all emeritus professors is Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus. Today, at 91, "Copey" is a College legend. A teacher here from 1893 to 1927, Copey today just reads and takes occasional walks. On his 90th birthday last year, John Mason Brown '23, Walter Lippman '10, and many others paid tribute to him as their teacher and inspiration...