Word: robes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with "a man in a beautiful clean robe with two great white wings" to her final defiance before those who call her sorceress and heretic: "What I am, I will not denounce. What I have done, I will not deny." Hallmark Producer-Director George Schaefer's light-and-camera play brought splendor to the color screen...
...were the King's bodyguards, four swarthy, husky men in short, blue, lace-trimmed jackets, each carrying a sef (sword), khanjar (dagger) and pistol, all of which, Abdullah Balkhair explained, were merely ceremonial. They stood in sharp contrast to a few others in the party, beneath whose traditional robes reporters spotted signs of a more modern dress; one Saudi's robe flapped open to reveal a powder-blue ensemble-silk sports shirt buttoned at the neck, double-breasted blue zoot suit. The best and saddest scene-stealer of the group was sloe-eyed Prince Mashhur, the crippled, brown...
...From Producer Frank Ross, who popularized eye-stretching CinemaScope with The Robe, came a surprisingly frank plug for oldfashioned, small-screen, black-and-white films. Ross noted that CinemaScope is fine for sweeping horizons, but added: "If the subject ¶ has power and the scenes themselves are what you want to show, don't tinsel it up with CinemaScope." ¶Sorely beset, RKO peddled distribu tion rights to 44 films (including eleven not yet released) to prosperous rival Universal-International, hoped to save some $7,000,000 by the deal, wearily acknowledged that it is exploring a new source...
...Gone With the Wind (1939) $33-51 2) The Robe (1953) 17.5; 3) The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) 12.8; 4) From Here to Eternity (1953) 12.5; 5) This Is Cinerama (1952) 12.5; 6) White Christmas (1954) 12.0; 7) Duel in the Sun (1947) 11.3; 8) The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 11.3; 9) Quo Vadis (1951) 10.5; 10) Cinerama Holiday...
...Architecture & Building, Pastor & Parsonage. Illustrations and features enliven the pages between pastoral shoptalk ranging from "Preaching on Controversial Issues" to "Psychiatry Needs Religion." The centerfold is devoted to a spread of new gadgets calculated to gladden a ministerial eye, like the Carryor ("enables the minister to carry his pulpit robe easily"; $8.75) or the miniature pew ("makes youngsters enjoy attending church"; $5.95). The purpose of the new Advocate, said Los Angeles' Bishop Gerald Kennedy, will be to "bring back to men who have been beaten down by routine, the memory of their ordination and the sense of the dignity...