Word: roderick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clyde K. M. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, will head the Anthropology Department, and Roderick Firth, associate professor of Philosophy, will head the Philosophy Department, starting July 1. Henry C. Hatfield '44, professor of German, has been appointed acting chairman of the Division of Modern Languages...
Although the cast made a few first night slips, nobody seemed to mind. While Babs Loomis as Mad Margaret and John Holcenberg as Sir Roderick added a convincing supernatural touch to the whole affair, Elizabeth Petersen, Bruce Macdonald, and Robert Cortright added very solid singing performances...
...unlike Robin Hood--is hiding out with his gang of trusty-men. Danny Kaye and Glynis Johns are trusty-men. Miss Johns is a Captain and Danny Kaye is the Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester...
...would not be entirely right to say the movie is built around Danny Kaye because it tries, at first, to be a parody, and a rather subtle one, of Hollywood's own breed of medieval extravaganza. The turning point seems to come after Roderick, gurgling, "Wenches, laughter, song! That's what we need around this old castle," sends his men out to scour the countryside. In an amusing take-off on Western posse scenes the King's men roll about the land picking up cart-loads of wenches. The cameras linger on the wenches, and good clean medieval escapades soon...
Name-Dropper. In Milwaukee, forced by the election commission to run for alderman under his full name. Roderick Peter Lanser started proceedings to have his name legally changed to Rod, explained in circuit court that Roderick sounded too fancy, wealthy and effeminate for the voters in his ward...