Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tonight in Samarkand (by Jacques Deval and Lorenzo Semple Jr.) takes its theme from the famous Oriental legend-about the inevitability of fate-that also suggested John O'Hara's Appointment in Samarra. The doom-dodger in this some-what Oriental tale of French circus life is a much-besought tamer of tigers (Jan Farrand), who, fearing the future, gazes into the crystal ball of the magician (Louis Jourdan). In two flash-forwards, the ball reveals that on her next birthday -whether she marries a juggler or a millionaire-she must perish in a steamship disaster. Finally, because...
...show how bookselling can be kept alive and profitable. Papa Kroch, who got started in a store the size of a closet and once said that "a bookseller without a soul is but a ribbon clerk," is convinced that son Carl has the right idea: "It is a fairy tale that books will disappear. Books will remain and books will be read...
...linguist and etymologist, I do sympathize with the editors of America in their outcry against the corruption of the English language by the advertising agencies [TIME, Jan. 24]. I feel, though, that Father Davis has overlooked the deeper meaning of the old fairy tale of Rumpelstiltskin and the old rule that "the baby has to have a name." The excesses of the advertisers are merely proof that the Biblical injunction to Adam that he give names to the things of the earth is getting harder every...
...produce the adventure story, Treasure Island, with live actors instead of animated cartoon characters. Then a year later he released his first film on nature using live animals instead of Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse. Now Disney has tried to experiment again, this time by combining another favorite adventure tale for twelve year-olds with a sequence of scenes on The Living Sea. But the result is at best only mildly entertaining...
...great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...