Word: solomons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...product often creates the market, not the reverse. Nevertheless, many English concentrators and others in literature courses often find themselves lacking sufficient background in Biblical and classical lore to appreciate many illusions and mythical themes in the works at hand. For students who are foggy on the Song of Solomon or the Odyssey, an introduction to these basic poetic works in English translation might be a valuable preface to Spenser, Milton, and Joyce...
Divorced. By Brenda Lewis (real name: Birdie Solomon), 38, handsome soprano of the Metropolitan Opera: Simon Asen, 48, conductor; after 15 years of marriage, two children; in Sunbury...
Married. George Sanders, 52, suave Hollywood heavy; and Benita Hume Colman, 52, actress, widow of Actor Ronald Colman; both for the third time (his second was Cinemagyar Zsa Zsa Gabor); in Madrid, where he is on location for Solomon and Sheba. Benita is a British subject. Sanders, born of British parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, will give up his U.S. citizenship...
...season's most provocative plan for a Broadway musical came from an unlikely impresario: Poet-Novelist-Historian Robert (The White Goddess) Graves. The subject, announced by Graves during an Israeli lecture tour: Solomon and Sheba. Plans call for only a dozen beauties to represent Solomon's 700 wives and 300 concubines. As for casting, Graves hopes to get Lena Horne for Sheba "because she is black but comely, as the Song of Songs says." For the score, he plans to approach Leonard Bernstein. Solomon and Sheba, says Graves, will be "different from the film on the same subject...
...cameras rolled and Cinemorsel Gina Lollobrigida, playing in Solomon and Sheba on location in Madrid, recoiled prettily from the evil one with a dagger. The 'assassination attempt flopped all right. Lunging at his quarry, Actor Luis Santana bumped into a blazing brazier, and raced howling across the set, his cloak a flaming torch. Gina was horror-struck; Santana, soon doused, with only minor burns, was badly shaken. Director King Vidor? The cameras had caught the scene, and he decided to rescript slightly for that touch of burning realism...