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TOPKAPI. A jewel theft in Istanbul is played mostly for laughs by Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell and Peter Ustinov in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi...
...moves again, and this time an eye peers out from under it. "Let's go!" a voice cries hoarsely, and in rapid succession three men (Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov, Gilles Segal) leap out of the pit, run crouching to a door, dart stealthily across a large dim room and go leaping up a narrow stair within the walls. Once on the roof, they make a risky traverse and arrive, with twilight coming on, at the brink of a sheer parapet interrupted here and there with iron-barred apertures...
Founded by Englishmen William Newbold and Robert Geddes (the British ownership was severed in 1897), the bank opened its doors amid the civil war raging between the foreign-import Emperor Maximilian and Mexican Revolutionary Benito Juárez. Remarkably, it succeeded in winning the business of merchants and spreading into several branches, partly because it adopted the still-popular British stance of doing business with both sides and partly because its peso notes became Mexico's first nationwide paper currency. (The bank's 20-peso note shows Benito Juárez, Mexico's 33rd President, and Bartolome...
...imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort crisis was not so acute. She took off from Capri on a week-long yacht cruise with her real-life leading man, German Cinemactor Maximilian Schell...
Since its founding in 1952, Pro Musica has introduced a steadily growing audience to the curious delights of a long and varied line-up of forgotten composers, such as the polyphonic wizardry of Ludwig Senfl, composer to the court of Maximilian I, the mystical motets of Martin de Rivaflecha, chapelmas-ter at the Cathedral of Valencia, and the Rabelaisian merriment of Adriano Banchieri, abbot of an Olivetan monastery. Its most ambitious undertaking was The Play of Daniel, a 12th century music-drama that was unearthed in the British Museum. Elegantly staged in medieval setting and dress in a Manhattan church...