Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first play, "The Road to Rome," was neither a commercial nor an artistic success because the proper ingredients for either were not there. It was a mildly amusing but banal play, containing a certain topical message which could not, however, justify its inclusion in any repertory. The Copley players' second play, which closes tonight, is Shaw's "Heartbreak House," a much wiser and likelier choice, which they do in fine style...
Into the select group of scheduled international airlines last week flew a brash, tough newcomer. Transocean Air Lines, Inc., whose home field is Oakland, Calif., made a deal with Venezuela to operate a twice-a-week service between Caracas and Rome. Transocean was no pinfeathered newcomer to flying; it is already the biggest contract carrier in the world. More remarkable, in the money-losing flying business, it has made money ever since it started 2½ years ago. To do so, it has become a jack of all airline trades and a master of several. Some of its deals...
...Guam; from Guam he carried furloughed workers to Oakland, Calif., where Transocean headquarters sent him back to Windsor Locks, Conn., his starting point, with airplane parts. Transocean got its first big contract-ferrying 7,000 British immigrants to Canada (TIME, April 19)-when one of its navigators in Rome heard about the need for transportation and tipped off Nelson...
...arranged the marriage with the King of Arabia, to seal a treaty uniting these ancient enemies. The marriage works out badly. Town life and the elaborate ceremonials of the court distress the Arab girl brought up in freedom on the desert; and when Antipas, bored, takes her to Rome, she is disgusted by his dissipations. Their daughter Fara, however, is beautiful, a favorite of both Arabs and Jews. When Antipas divorces his wife and sends wife & child back to the desert, the Arabs plan revenge. They raid Jerusalem, and ride into Herod's palace, only to find that Herod...
Decline & Fall. Dr. Douglas' ancient times have none of the awesome stage effects of Ben-Hur or Quo Vadis, with their baths, slaves, violence and mystery. They are practical and humdrum; the decline of Rome does not mean orgies in the palaces, but higher taxes. The nomadic simplicity of desert life is so contrasted with the hypocrisy of the cities that Dr. Douglas sometimes seems to be loading the dice in favor of the outdoors and in favor of the Arabs as against the Jews. There is another side of Jewish life, however, which Fara discovers when...