Word: quos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...four suggestions were: maintenance of the status quo whereby participation tickets cost $20 and spectator coupon books $21; free use of facilities, whereby the cost would be distributed among all undergraduates; having a participation fee compulsory; while leaving spectatorship voluntary; and partially curtailing the use of H.A.A. facilities...
Like the imperial Caesars, Producer Sam (King Solomon's Mines) Zimbalist and Director Mervyn (Anthony Adverse) LeRoy rely on these circuses to keep their audience diverted from sterner matters. For all the majesty of the theme and magnificence of the trimmings, the story of Quo Vadis, based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' 1895 novel, never rises much above the level of a good melodrama...
Perhaps the last epic of its scope, Quo...
Vadis is a triumph of money over matter, a monument to Hollywood's faith in the formula that nothing succeeds like excess. Petronius speaks for Quo Vadis when, discussing the emperor's monstrous arson, he tells Nero: "History need not say that the burning of Rome was good, but it must say that it was colossal...
...Hollywood opening of Quo Vadis later this month, M-G-M is planning a celebration almost as colossal as the burning of Rome. So many invitations have already gone out to local bigwigs, from Governor Earl Warren on down, that only the most dazzling movie names can hope to make their way along Wilshire Boulevard, lined with a Praetorian Guard of dress extras, to the Four Star Theater. To keep lesser mortals constantly reminded of the occasion, M-G-M hirelings have already arranged publicity tie-ups with everything from soap to fire insurance. Piece de resistance: the Quo Vadis...