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...defeated almost all actresses who have essayed it. Among Americans, only Rose Eytinge was in full command of the part in the 19th century. When the play was mounted in 1937, the late John Mason Brown began his review with the celebrated comment, "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra--and sank." In modern times, only Katharine Cornell has been highly acclaimed by both critics and public (in the 1947-48 season), and even she was somewhat over-rated. (British acresses have managed only a little better...
...John Harvard covered with snow, freshman dorms covered with snow, the Radcliffe Yard covered with snow. And they kept the copy brief and the margins clean and white. But if you don't know exactly what games the Harvard Football Team lost or whom the crew defeated on the Nile or how the Russian Bells got to Lowell House in the first place, Three Thirty Six doesn't offer much assistance. Even worse are its vignettes of House life, which sound as if they are describing a string of Holiday Inns. Take Eliot House, for example: "Along with a fine...
...have special application in America to the men who made illegal whisky-quite literally by the light of the moon. While their ranks have been decimated, a few moonshiners still ply their illicit trade in the deep recesses of Appalachia. Feeling rather like David Livingstone in search of the Nile's source. Correspondent William Friedman was blindfolded and led through the labyrinthine Eastern Kentucky hills to meet one of the last of those who brew "white lightning" in hidden caves. His report...
...does not quite happen that way in real life, of course. Even in Wallace's overblown novel, the "Gospel According to James" turns out to be a possible forgery. But just as the source of the Nile was an irresistible magnet for 19th century explorers, the sources of the four Gospels that relate the life of Jesus remain irresistible lures to 20th century biblical scholars, and every so often some patient scriptural sleuth turns up another important piece of evidence. Recently, a Roman Catholic scholar arrived at a finding that could turn out to be this century...
...outside it. The museum hopes that when the exhibit closes six months hence, 1.5 million people will have seen it. That would net about $1.3 million, most of it earmarked for a UNESCO fund to restore the temples on the island of Philae in Egypt, now submerged in the Nile by the Aswan High...