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...author of Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, rather than showing his old mettle with the Irish tongue, offers mere bits of verbal Irish lace. Some fairly standard jokes about the Irish and the clergy take on almost the character of leitmotivs. Even most of the characters fail to come off-including Paul Lukas as the baron. There the play does not give the Devil his due: the one thing an emissary of his would most certainly not be is a crashing bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...security of a small castle with a hot-and-cold-running moat. But once he finds his medieval version of suburban bliss and the itinerant ménage à trois settles down, he feels he is committed to being a hero. So off he rides again on his trusty steed, this time to face the greatest foe a man can have: himself. It is a battle that Satirist Nathan does not allow his Every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaggy Dragon Story | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

General Electric Theater (Sun. 9 p.m,. CBS). Barry Fitzgerald in The White Steed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Dec. 27, 1954 | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

...Galleries, 16 new vanes shaped from the old molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they had many touches of humor or pride. One was a soaring steed with flying mane, another a chubby Gabriel blowing a horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Useful & Agreeable | 9/27/1954 | See Source »

...flashy motorcycle and some cool bop talk, and accompanied by a grizzly crew sporting well oiled side-burns, Brando roars to a stop in a one-car town. For a moment it looks like a desperadoes-shooting-up-the-village western with over-powered motorcycles replacing the trusty steed. But what might have been little more than a modern horse opera turns into a brutally realistic blend of tension and violence forceful enough to arouse even the exam drugged scholar...

Author: By Cliff F. Thompson, | Title: The Wild One | 1/29/1954 | See Source »

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