Word: piper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dance (which is said to date from 1054). Their arms held aloft like antlers, their thumbs and forefingers held delicately together, the dancers leap around and over the swords in a crescendo of movement that usually sets the crowd to whooping, yelling and stomping. Toward the end, a solo piper-spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement-softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches...
...year. The special shows, at least 26 of which will be in color, account for about 117 hours of programing and a whopping $40 million in gross billings. John (Pajama Game) Raitt will join Mary Martin in Annie Get Your Gun; Van Johnson is set to play The Pied Piper of Hamelin; and Mickey Rooney brings his cultivated ham to Pinocchio. Maurice Evans will produce and star in Twelfth Night and Dial M for Murder for Hallmark Hall of Fame. Ex-Cinemoppet Shirley Temple acts as hostess and sometimes star of a new fairy-tale series, and NBC Opera Company...
This is the situation as Author Nevil Shute (Pied Piper, The Breaking Wave) opens his 21st novel. To U.S. Commander Dwight Towers, who has brought his atom-powered submarine safely to port in Melbourne, the death in the north has no meaning. He still dreams of returning from duty to his wife and children in Mystic. Conn. A young Australian couple, Peter and Mary Holmes, use habit as an escape from the horror to come; they go on as they always have-sailing, giving parties, worrying when their small daughter has a sore throat or fever. Moira Davidson at first...
Bargain Rates. Resurgent West Germany will try to outdo her neighbors in merrymaking and culture. All summer, folk tales will come to life in ancient German castles, monasteries and town markets; the Pied Piper will tootle through the streets of Hamelin, and the Hans Sachs dramas will run in the medieval, walled town of Rothenberg-on-Tauber. In Berlin, where Americans can walk through the Iron Curtain to the shattered East sector, some of the world's top architects have rebuilt a war-gutted neighborhood in the West sector for the city's International Building Exhibition, which runs...
...Shirley Temple was signed last week as narrator for a series of one-hour fairy tales, and things look Grimm elsewhere. CBS is preparing a 9O-min. musical version of Aladdin for the fall, and NBC has at least six others brewing, including Pinocchio, Hans Brinker and The Pied Piper...