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...Raven," which shares the bill, is a French mystery about a poison-pen campaign that sets a small French village into turmoil. It contains glimpses of some of the nastiest people ever assembled on one movie lot, and that includes the hero, Dr. German, who is played by Pierre Fresnay. The movie's favorite acting device is the pregnant pause, which is woefully overworked. Moviegoers who have seen "The Thirteenth Letter" will find that it is the same movie, scene for scene. They will also find that the American version is just as convincingly acted and considerably easier...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1951 | See Source »

...missed them before and are willing to go a long way to see them, The Raven and A Lover's Return opened yesterday at the Ascot at 183 Street and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, Paris 1900 is at the Embassy (42nd and Park...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Butterfly from Barcelona | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...wrote songs in praise of homosexuality and accompanied them on the lute with what Vasari grudgingly described as "no little facility." He kept a string of race horses, and pets by the dozen: jays, apes, badgers, squirrels, marmosets, turtle doves, and a raven which he taught to answer the door. In an inventory of goods filed with the Siena tax collector in 1512, Il Sodoma also listed "a donkey that talks theology to the priests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lazy Genius | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

...mile ride from Tokyo. In the airfield's noisy, sprawling, glass-walled building, the children found a haven under the protection of Operation Recess; volunteer nurses popped the smallest in cribs, kept the bigger ones busy with comic books. A few of the women belonged to Operation Raven, the Air Force's sardonic tag for the widows of men killed in Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Tokyo Express | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

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