Word: shepherdesses
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Sixteen years pass by and the banished babe is now a charming shepherdess loved by a prince. Peasants dance, bumpkins clown, rogues play tricks, and after a few fairy-tale snags, everyone is reunited and lives happily ever after...
...blatted: "In June 1940 Churchill asked Reynaud to unite France and Britain. What had been frustrated by Joan's sublime sacrifices, Churchill and Reynaud were about to realize. To frustrate the new plan there were just two men, Petain and Laval. . . . From Charles VII to Petain, from the Shepherdess of Lorraine to the son of Auvergne, the Englishman hasn't changed...
...Franciscans, strolling through roomfuls of top-flight Delacroix, Corots, Daumiers, Gauguins, Cezannes, van Goghs, Matisses, Braques, Tanguys, recognized many famed pictures (Ingres' Turkish Bath, Millet's Shepherdess Tending her Flock, Gérard's Madame Recamier, Delacroix's Greece Expiring on the Ruins of Missolonghi}. Meanwhile gallery directors all over the U. S. tumbled over themselves to negotiate with Director Heil for a loan of his big French show after San Francisco is through with...
...acted the part of Ganymede with great unreality, squealing and mincing so that an unfortunate stage convention became even more flimsy and unenjoyable than it is ordinarily to the modern eye. The tedium of her performance was relieved in only a few places, such as her advice to the shepherdess Phoebe, and her arrangement of the triple marriage...
...Lawrence Olivier, a very handsome and athletic Orlando, was not much better. Only a few characters--the fool (McKeuzie Ward), Audrey the shepherdess (Doris Fordred), and, most of all. Leon Quatermaine as Jacques, escape a deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely...