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...Shakespeare's "The Tempest." It is, as MacLeish says, "a play about a moment in time," and is set on the tropical island of Bahama. It tells of two people, a dissatisfied wife and a disconsolate stranger, finding a moment of understanding under the spell of the moonlit waters. Besides Amanda Steele, the cast includes Michael Laurence, Mr. and Mrs. Neil Towell, William M. Hunt, and Clive Parry. Directing will be Mrs. Mark DeWolff Howe...
Obscure Mail Pilot. The idea that he could fly the Atlantic came to Lindbergh in his DH4 biplane one moonlit night over Peoria, Ill., while he was flying the mail from St. Louis to Chicago. It is September 1926, and he is not yet 25, but four solid years of barnstorming and army air service have given him an air of quiet confidence that a group of aviation-mind ed St. Louis businessmen cannot resist...
...filmy clothes for the greater glory of Technicolor. Playing the skittish wife of a Napoleonic general occupying a northern Italian town in Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie, busty Martine bounces about in a low-cut bodice, splashes nudely in a shell-shaped bathtub, flits from moonlit gardens to candlelit bedrooms in a minimum of ninon...
Most impressive scene: the climactic sequence as the ship strikes a submerged iceberg, and approximately two hours later sinks ponderously into a calm, moonlit, icy sea, while those left on the doomed vessel sing Nearer My God to Thee...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...