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...office. ¶The box-office success of Universal's To Hell and Back spurred a rush of World War II and Korean war movies. Four have recently been completed; eleven are in the works. Among the prospects: Universal's Battle Hymn, Columbia's The Good Shepherd, Paramount's The Proud and the Profane...
Meanwhile, the Houses are in the process of casting for the current Christmas plays. While Eliot and Dunster are both producing the "Second Shepherd's Play." Lowell will put on "Knight of the Burning Pestle," Adams will present "Alcestis," by Euripides, Leverett "An Evening With Saroyan," and Winthrop "The Birth of the Beautiful Typewriter Girl...
...algebra, but to show how man built up his world of signs and symbols to solve the problems of his everyday existence and then to expand his civilization. He starts with the sun and the moon, man's first clocks and calendars, and with the notches that the shepherd cut when counting his flock. Then come the calendar keepers, the powerful group who could tell people when to plant crops. Later men developed more complicated desires. The farmer wanted to know how much land he had, the sailor what course to plot, the priest what taxes to collect...
...power to the Marine captain who solved the $64,000 culinary problem with the French menu, but does that rate him a special dinner with General Shepherd...
...grace and wit the look of a man doing such assorted things as walking a tightrope, mounting and descending a staircase, and catching fluttering butterflies. At his funniest, Marceau mimes both David and Goliath in a tour de force of machine-gun character switches, from the sweet, flute-playing shepherd to the hulking brute and back again, as their historic battle rages. At his perceptive best, in Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, he accomplishes in less than three memorable minutes what many a novelist has failed to do in volumes: Marceau's youth strides radiantly onward until...