Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tale of the department's Special Squad No. 1, a group which was ordered to infiltrate the party back during World War II, came to light when a secret report to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia was made public during Miller's trial. The report, dated April 4, 1944, noted that 28 detectives and policewomen had become dues-paying members of the party and had supplied daily reports on its inner workings. "So deeply did some of our investigators bore into the party," it stated, "that one of them acted as a courier between the American Communist Party...
Perched atop a hill 500 feet above the Austrian city of Salzburg (pop. 100,096), the Hohensalzburg Fortress looks for all the world like a candy castle in some fairy tale. A tiny railway scrambles to the top, and tourists flock to the terrace for a breath of mountain air and a view of the Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school...
...Russia. One of the best in years is Sadko (Mosfilm; Artkino). Directed by Alexander Ptushko, who also did Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27, 1947), it is a hearty, grandly dressed and often beautiful version of the opera* that Rimsky-Korsakov made out of an old Russian fairy tale...
Sadko, as the tale is told, is a poor man of Novgorod whose heart aches for the sufferings of his people. One night he sings of their sorrows to the sea; and hearing him, the daughter of the Sea King rises through the waves, falls in love with him, and promises to help. In a bit of pre-Marxist fairy-tale socialism, she enables him to relieve a lot of capitalists of their money, which he promptly distributes to the poor. But, Sadko finds, while their bodies now have all they can desire, their souls still want. They...
Pete did not understand, and thereby hangs the tale. For Scripter Pete Verrill is not many changes of underwear away from Peter Viertel, the author of White Hunter, Black Heart, who in 1951 spent some months in the Congo as scriptwriter with the company of The African Queen, which was directed by John Huston. Viertel invited Huston to read the manuscript. Said Huston: "You can write anything you want about...