Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version of Don Juan Tenorio, Spain's traditional All Souls' Day show. "I am too much of a Spaniard and a necrophile," he said cheerfully, "to miss this chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
...with the severe regimen of a Sadler's Wells ballerina-an endless round of class, rehearsals and performances-the champagne & lobster life comes only once in a blue moon. Margot would be among the first to agree with Frederick Ashton that "being a ballerina is like being a nun; it is a dedication...
Fantasy is the idea of Anthony Boucher, 38, a top mystery writer (creator of Sister Ursula, the nun-detective) and J. Francis McComas, 39, onetime radio announcer and wonder-story writer. They will co-edit the new magazine. It took two years to fit Fantasy into Spivak's small operation, which requires a staff of only six to put out the unprofitable Mercury, the profitable Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and 30 cut-down mystery reprints a year...
...they say in Provence, lou Prégo Diéou, the Pray-to-God," with keen observation and lively imagination. "Her long pale green wings, like spreading veils, her head raised heavenwards, her folded arms, crossed upon her breast, are in fact a sort of travesty of a nun in ecstasy." The travesty is complete when the mantis makes her kill: "With the sharpness of a spring, the toothed forearm folds back on the toothed upper arm; and the insect is caught between the blades of the double saw . . . Thereupon, without unloosing the cruel machine, the mantis gnaws...
...only the location but the story, one of her favorites, Balzac's La Duchesse de Langeais. Set in the milieu of a decadent French nobility, it was a passion-tossed tale of a tragic love that would cast Garbo as a worldly duchess who finally takes a nun's vows and dies at 29. Scripter Sally Benson had made the adaptation; Wanger was trying to wangle British Cinemactor James Mason into the male lead as a steel-willed marquis...