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...Queen: that your reviewers fail to recognize a great performance is understandable, but that they make loud and noisome puns is as unforgivable as the popcorn bags I am sure they rattle. It is some relief that not all critics have found the Virgin Queen "strictly corn of the realm...
...lean, dark and pantherish, is one of the world's richest men. He takes a tithe of the almond, saffron and olive harvests in his vast domain, owns huge blocks of stock in French-run mines and factories, gets a rebate on machinery and automobiles imported into his realm. As a sideline, he reputedly takes a cut of the earnings of 6,000 prostitutes operating in the Marrakech area. El Glaoui's fortune is somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million...
Actually, the pagan gods died, as gods, long before the collapse of the ancient world. Cicero's De Natura Deorum treats them as 1) historical personages. 2) cosmic symbols, and 3) allegories. Thus translated from the realm of blind faith to that of reason, they became deathless elements in the heritage of Western man. Yet in medieval times they led a shadowy life indeed. The church treated them as peasant superstitions (the Roman pagus was a country district), or turned them into demons. Satan, for example, inherited hooves and horns from the great god Pan. It remained...
...eyes. In the regalia of her office, Actress Davis chugs about the palace like a twelve-cylinder Tudor, hand signals and all. She shaved some of her hair off for this role, but even so great a sacrifice was in vain. The Virgin Queen is strictly corn of the realm...
Many Rivers to Cross: "How anyone could take Eleanor Parker and Robert Taylor and make a bad picture is beyond my realm of reason."-W. S. F., St. Stephen...