Word: moone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth evening, as a full moon peeped over a calm sea, two tugs put towlines over the ship's sides, rocking her gently as her own windlasses tightened up on cables to outlying anchors. The Reina slid off the rocks as easily as she had slid on 84 hours before. Said the laconic voice over the loudspeaker: "Passengers are advised the vessel is now free." Said shattered Captain Hicks: "They're greasing a noose for me on the other side. This is my first and last passenger-ship command, I can assure...
...Jose State College and lit out for New York and (she hoped) Europe before settling for a teaching career. In Manhattan her money dribbled away. To pay the rent Pat was willing to try anything, landed a walk-on spot in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon. Cast members heard her after-hours warbling, urged her to go professional. She memorized The Rodgers and Hart Song Book, was signed by the Colony at first hearing...
...Rising of the Moon (Warner) is a trilogy of Ireland, a feature film entirely Irish both in locale of its scenes and soul of its makers, who include the Maine-born director, John Ford (real name: Sean O'Fearna). As if to disprove W. B. Yeats's old lament, "Romantic Ireland's dead and gone," Ford fought his way through Limerick and Galway and Dublin, pushing his cameras and a troupe of Ireland's best actors before him. In dramatic meanderings most of the commonplaces of the native character are trotted forth-that the Irish...
Another episode (1921), drawn from Lady Gregory's one-act play The Rising of the Moon, is tinged with macabre humor that bids to be incredible. Perhaps only the Irish themselves can see the joke in a gallows. During Ireland's Black and Tan ordeal of rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while...
High Noon and The Moon Is Blue (at the V.F.W. Parkway Drive-In in West Roxbury). A pair of fine cinema classics with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly in the first, William Holden and David Niven in the second...