Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once a happy hunting ground of the Indians and the background for a Norse saga, the noble Charles maintains its dignity despite the aqueous encroachments of the University. Rising from its headwaters in the town of Hopkinton, southwest of Cambridge, the Charles follows a circuitons course for sixty-nine miles to its mouth in Boston Bay, draining along its way about 300 square miles of good Massachusetts soil. Twenty-six artificial dams scattered along the river might interest any men who contemplate an upstream journey in a canoe to Wellesley...
Around himself in this production Gielgud has built a competent but not always sparkling supporting cast. In what is really the play's most significant role, that of lady Bracknell, Margaret Rutherford tries to create her own interpretation one of saga city rather than more overwhelming personality but she does not seem able to escape completely the characterization by Edith Evans, made famous in London and on records, and she does not, therefore, entirely succeed...
Appassionato (Lux-Saga) is a genteelly lethargic Swedish-made film about a girl who is loved by one young and one not-so-young pianist. The middle-aged one never really has a chance. Few U.S. moviegoers will care particularly that this is a fairly dull-but well photographed-movie. What they will notice is the girl, Viveca Lindfors, auburn-haired alumna of the same Swedish Royal Dramatic Academy which gave Hollywood both Garbo and Bergman...
...years will tell on a house as thoroughly used as this old colonial structure. Much of the dated furniture now in place over the library was added by one of the four owners. The first of these, and the householder who played a large part in the Revolutionary saga of this area, was John Hicks, who built and occupied the house in 1762. Hicks was a carpenter by day and a burning patriot by both night and avocation. Although carpentry took his work-time, his days were rounded out by tax-collecting for the colonial government. Hicks' activities with...
...saga of Chip Gannon and Levi Jackson, due for three more years of exploration, started with a bang . . . . Levi looked very much like a frightened freshman in the opening quarter as he fumbled, stumbled, and then got off a kick on the bottom of his shoes . . . . Chip performed like a veteran, gaining the praise of both sides . . . . Jackson came back later in the game with a series of fine plays . . . . he almost went all the way once, but was stopped by a flying block by Gannon...