Word: sabatini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no doubt about the "master-publisher" part: Hutchinson's publishing and printing firms put out about 10 million books a year-from Calcium Superphosphate and Compound Fertilizers, by P. Parrish, to The Gamester, by Rafael Sabatini-and have brought him a fortune exceeding ?4,000,000. And there was no doubt that he had overcome plenty of difficulties-in person. For five years he had haunted the auctions, picked every painting and print himself, without a moment's doubt of his judgment. He knew what he wanted: "But of course! I own horses; I know what...
...Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) dives headfirst into a Technicolored splash of kicking señoritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...
...Hawk is no relative of Rafael Sabatini's book of the same name. The sea hawks, as students of English history and those who saw the 1924 version of their story will recall, are valiant English captains who, while Queen Elizabeth haggles over the cost of building a navy to face the Spanish Armada, wage an undeclared war on Spanish shipping wherever they find it. In history, deadliest of the sea hawks was Sir Francis Drake. In the picture, he is symbolized by Captain Geoffrey Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish...