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Along with the rest, even though Marlon never quite made a high-school diploma, goes an impressive intellect. He reads constantly (e.g., Nietzsche, Lao-tse, psychoanalytical textbooks), and has quite a flair for verbal imagery (he once described Wally Cox as "an old. fragile, beautifully embroidered Chinese ceremonial robe, with a few little Three-in-One oil spots...
Living to Eat. Rama is a simple soul who, like Candide, thinks he is living in the best of all possible worlds. He can scarcely believe what is happening to him until he is down to the last princely robe on his back. Fortunately, the Hermitage of Gluttons takes the exiles in. The Gluttons' creed: "A man lives by eating . . . Whatever gods there be, one of them must be in a man's belly." Rama joins them in sacrificing to their god three times a day, and finds a friend in one fellow traveler of the Gluttons...
...only got there first with CinemaScope, but has virtually captured the field. Its wide screens are already installed in just over 6,000 theaters, justifying the faith Fox President Spyros P. Skouras and Production Chief Darryl F. Zanuck had in the new process. The first CinemaScope film, The Robe, has already grossed around $21 million at home and abroad and is crowding the alltime record of $35 million for Gone With the Wind. Another testimonial came last week in Fox's earnings report for the first half of the year. Net climbed...
...late years, Man Singh has returned to his old preoccupation with religious matters. He used much of his ill-won gains to erect temples in the valleys of Chambal and Betwa, to the goddess Kali and to Siva, the lord of destruction. He began appearing in the saffron robe of a priest, usually carrying prayer beads. But in one respect he remained relentless: he had vowed to kill every male member of the hated Brahman priest's family, and kill them he did, one by one, even though they tried to escape by going 650 miles away to Bombay...
...first scene of Demetrius is the last scene of The Robe: the condemned centurion's bride sends the robe to her Christian friends. In trying to hide it, the freed slave Demetrius (Victor Mature) scuffles with a Roman soldier and is sentenced to be trained for the arena in a gladiatorial school...