Word: mata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baron von Epp. Dennis King plays the role in tiara and gown, and flutters an imperious fan with the regal disdain of a queen of players. At no other point does the play rise to this level of theatricality. Salome Jens adorns the evening physically as a Russian Mata Hari, but she delivers her lines like a fishwife. As for Maximilian Schell, he is frostily remote. Director Peter Glenville doubtless tried to coax some emotion out of Schell, but he might as well have pleaded with a two-by-four...
...fortress high in the Alps. There are two inevitable complications: 1) a dirty turncoat is methodically bumping off the members of the mission, and 2) one of those guys in uniform turns out to be a girl (Mary Ure). She is a sort of Green Berette, a combination of Mata Hari, Annie Oakley and the Dragon Lady...
...show can even close on the road before reaching Broadway in any form. Last year, Merrick's Mata Hari (which cost as much as Tiffany's) folded in Washington shortly after a disastrous benefit - premiere during which scenery collapsed and the leading lady was caught nude on stage in a costume change. Merrick evidently found the show unfixable, sent director Vincente Minelli back to California, and auctioned off the sets to to Washington University play-houses...
...Firing Squad's Guest. All three hotels go back to the days when princes and the very rich turned their large suites into homes away from home. Mata Hari, who received her suitors, and betrayed them, at the Athenee, may have been its only guest to face the firing squad. Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller II, and Charles Evans Hughes were among its loyal clientele; even today, the Fords and Rockefellers wouldn't dream of staying anywhere else. Greek shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view...
...wanted, Pakistan accepted the ruling fairly graciously and promised to abide by it. The reception in India was testy. The Indian press complained about the "justice" of international courts, and the noisy opposition parties accused Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Congress Party of sacrificing a bit of Bharat Mata-Mother India-to the hated Pakistanis. The opposition even introduced a no-confidence motion, which will probably come to a vote this week. Since Indira commands a comfortable majority in Parliament, she is unlikely to be beaten, but the nationalist Jana Sangh Party has already vowed to make the Rann...