Word: rebecca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misty Cornish coast, shadows loom in moss-covered castles. Most of the characters are moody, tormented people who indulge in such eccentricities as ocean dips in the dead of night, and make such remarks as "I came to be troubled by strange and formless fears." Like Daphne (Rebecca} du Maurier's current novel, on which it is based, the picture provocatively leaves the question of Rachel's innocence or guilt up in the air. But there can be little question about the movie version's box-office outcome. Like the Du Maurier novel...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 35, cinemactress (Rebecca, Ivanhoe); and Collier Young, 44, Hollywood producer; both for the third time (her first: Actor Brian Aherne; his second: Cinemactress Ida Lupmo); after a slapstick beginning (he lost the license, she lost her trousseau, both missed their honeymoon plane); in Saratoga, Calif...
...first fifty years of its life the glee club was an adjunct of the banjo and mandolin clubs. Professional coaches were hired to teach members to sing the "Stein Song" and "Down by the Stream Where I First Met Rebecca" and similar pieces...
...Augustine, the 5th century Bishop of Hippo, was Christianity's first great philosopher. Writes Anglican Rebecca West: "His works are the foundation of modern Western thought . . . He took as his subject matter a certain complex of ideas which intrude into every developed religion and are present in Christianity also; the idea that matter, and especially matter related to sex, is evil; that man, wearing a body made of matter, living in a material world, and delighting in the manifestations of sex, is tainted with evil, and must cleanse himself before God; and that this atonement must take the form...
Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott's novel made into a rousing medieval horse opera; with Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Taylor as Rebecca, Joan Fontaine as Rowena (TIME...