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Withered Roses. When the stone lids of the sarcophagi were slid off and the pinewood caskets opened, the assembled scientists made an astonishing discovery: 24 of the bodies were completely mummified and in an excellent state of preservation; other bodies, although skeletons, were still held together by their ligaments. How were the bodies preserved? The experts disagreed. Some attributed the mummification to the climate, others to some unknown process of embalming, probably of Moorish or perhaps even Egyptian origin. The nuns had a simpler explanation. Said Sister Blanca: "They were all saints. Their bodies could not decay...
...best British studios (notably Denham and Pinewood), responsible for turning out-for Rank or for Rank-financed independents-some 75% of whatever British production is worth mentioning...
...Mikado (Gilbert & Sullivan Films). The year 1939 is the biggest season Gilbert & Sullivan ever had. Hot on the heels of Broadway's three Mikados-one hallmarked, one half-swing and one pure Harlem-comes the first Mikado in cinema. Made in England's Pinewood Studios last year by Director Victor Schertzinger and a quorum of first-string members of London's famed D'Oyly1"Carte Company, the screen version of the world's most famed operetta is a full-length, Technicolor facsimile of the original...
...been the reputedly highest paid cinemactress in the world, U. S. cinemaddicts may wonder: 1) why Fields pictures have never been exhibited in the U. S.; 2) why British audiences find her so funny. This first of three Fields pictures which Twentieth Century-Fox plans to make in its Pinewood studios, begs the first question but answers the second. An uproarious, rough & tumble comedy about life before the turn of the Century in the gold camps of South Africa, it displays its star as one of the most likable characters on the screen, suggests that in failing to recognize...
Followed by 40 automobiles, the bus sped down the highway toward Duck Hill. Two miles from the scene of last December's murder, 500 country folk, including women and children, waited expectantly in a patch of pinewood. When the motorcade from Winona arrived, the mob closed in to watch as the terrified Negroes were dragged from the bus. People in the back rows could hear heavy chains clink as the two blackamoors were made fast to trees...