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Saarinen's small (130 seats) chapel is just as unusual: a simple cylinder of brick or stone that belongs to no century and looks somewhat like an oil storage tank. Since there are no windows, Architect Saarinen has set it on arches in a moat to get a dappled light effect something like Capri's Blue Grotto. The altar is near the wall, dramatically spotlighted from a small bell tower in the ceiling. Outside, to tie the whole project together, Architect Saarinen has designed a majestic plaza set with a mosaic of colored stones, possibly pink, grey...
...through the role of Joe Martin, grocery-store magnate and the girl's father, interested only in the grossest of profit and spectacle. He transports gloomy Glourie Castle to sunny Florida, outfitting it with radios in suits of armor and Venetian gondolas "to give that European look" to the moat--the ultimate in unintentional incongruity. Pallette makes the most of the only part which requires genuine interpretation...
...battle with hand ax and mace & chain to the neighing of horses and the funereal beating of drums; the flaming assault on Torquilstone castle, where Rowena (Joan Fontaine) is held captive by the sneering Sir Hugh de Bracy (Robert Douglas), with thousands of Saxon archers hurling themselves across the moat and swarming up the granite-grey walls while the Normans shower boulders down on them from the battlements...
Last week, in a chatty new book,* Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, 49, told what happened to her after the message arrived. A tall, kindly Quaker from Philadelphia, she sailed for Japan on Oct. 1, 1946, took up her new duties within the palace moat exactly 17 days later. But she soon learned that her duties involved more than teaching English. "We want you," said the Emperor's Grand Steward, "to open windows on to a wider world for our Crown Prince...
...twisted through the street traffic in search of foreigners' cars-particularly the olive-drab sedans of U.S. Army units-to punch out their windows, terrify their passengers and overturn or burn a dozen empty cars. Two U.S. sailors caught up in the frenzy were dumped into the Imperial moat while a dazed Japanese stood near by muttering, "Most regrettable; most regrettable...