Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early 20s, Ida Scudder went back to India to help her ailing mother. One night, as she sat alone in the mission bungalow at Tindivanam, a Brahman came to the door with a tale of woe. His child wife was in labor, and the midwives had given up hope of saving her. Would Miss Scudder come to the rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife...
Shakespeare's tale of the King of Navarre and three young lords who forswear women for study, only for the Princess of France and three young ladies to come calling, is all satiric sideshows and sashayings, mixups and false beards. In the present production, the frills are multiplied-croquet games, early gramophones and automobiles, tea on the lawn, pink coats and blazers. At the start it seems rather chichi and cute, but in time it creates, and sustains, a genuine atmosphere...
That was six weeks ago. Last week, after the slow machinery of the law had ground away at his case, he was brought to court, haggard and unshaven, to hear the verdict of the grand jury. But this time the dreary old tale had a fresh and unexpected ending...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...
Hans Christian Andersen. Producer Sam Goldwyn's lavish musical fairy tale about Denmark's great spinner of fairy tales; with Danny Kaye, French Ballerina Jeanmaire (TIME...