Word: netherworld
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When Premier Pierre Mendès-France came to power, Baylot was removed (TIME, July 26), and Jean Dides was transferred to a relatively minor job. But Dides was so in love with his former work that he went right on beagling about in the Red netherworld...
...Marais) is a celebrated poet and national hero who falls in love with a satellite of death in the shape of a beautiful princess (Maria Casares). The princess covets Orpheus, takes Eurydice (Maria Dea) before her time. Confused by his love for both women, the poet journeys to the netherworld to plead for his wife's return-and in the hope of seeing the princess again...
...taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment of local plug-uglies. Some of the character sketches are deftly sardonic; others-notably of ringside sadists-are heavily overdrawn...
...Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes. Against their warning Achilles emerges, in white knee skirts, white mittens and a skin-tight sweater with a letter A on his chest. With Helen he shoots up out of Hades on the elevator...
...shocking to Wrestling Bradford as the fact that Marigold intended to marry Sir Gower Lackland (Tenor Edward Johnson). The wedding was half over when Wrestling strode grimly in, leading his Puritan fanatics. Sir Gower was killed, Marigold arrested. Wrestling fell asleep in the forest to dream of the fiery netherworld, of dancers with slippery hips, of Marigold for whom he signs the devil's book, has the devil's mark seered into his forehead...