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...beauty that it seemed to have been written yesterday, a play by the greatest dramatic poet who ever lived. It had never been done before.* For Laurence Olivier, 38 (who plays Henry and directed and produced the picture), the event meant new stature. For Shakespeare, it meant a new splendor in a new, vital medium. Exciting as was the artistic development of Laurence Olivier, last seen by U.S. cinemaddicts in films like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, his production of Henry V was even more exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterpiece | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...justify God's ways to man. He was almost as simple as the simplest of Wordsworth, but like Wordsworth he was capable of Miltonic splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of Youth | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Do You Do | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Like many a self-made man, he is pleased with his new-won splendor. He accepts Hollywood's lavish attention as a matter of course; surveys his Hollywood home and his Manhattan apartment, richly decorated in antiques and colonial furniture, with a satisfied eye. He seldom slips into his custom-made, monogrammed shirts, or expensive, tailor-made suits, without the triumphant recollection that once he was a kid from Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Git Gat Gittle | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Unlike the splendor of Rome's parallel gesture, the Geneva meeting was stark and austere. Only the colorful garb of an Anglican bishop here & there relieved the somber black-robed meeting of hundreds of Protestant churchmen. From Calvin's pulpit in the gaunt Cathedral of St. Pierre the speakers discussed their project : a World Council of Churches which would bring the joint influence of Protestant and Orthodox Churches to bear on world affairs. Last week's decision : the first council will meet in Holland or Denmark in 1948. Meanwhile, the World Council will continue material relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Calvin's Town | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

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