Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ORDEAL OF GILBERT PINFOLD (232 pp.)-Evelyn Waugh-Little, Brown...
...heap of studio craft to make a star. ("If you wanna bring me your wife or your aunt," says Starmaker Harry Conn, "we'll do the same for them.") Columbia Pictures, which shaped Kim to fill the place of an uppity Rita Hayworth, plunged Actress Novak into an ordeal which is now approaching full cycle, ironically confronts the studio with the old problem of an uppity star. For the story of how it happened, see this week's cover story in CINEMA, A Star Is Made...
...whole affair was soon all over Madrid. At one point McNaughton told the press that he had even complained to the director of the school, only to be reprimanded for giving such prominent men a test in the first place. But last week McNaughton faced one more ordeal before leaving for home: final examinations. Said he resignedly: "They're just a formality. I've been ordered not to base my grades on the exams. I couldn't anyhow. They're all going to compare answers, and I can't flunk anyone...
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...
Napoleon's occupation forces. The cannon, a beautiful three-ton jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand...