Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Emperor's Nightingale (Rembrandt Films) is the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, enacted by puppets in the soft hues of Nu-Agfa Color. Produced in Czechoslovakia by Jiri Trnka, the U.S. version keeps the original film's excellent score, adds a well-written narration by Phyllis McGinley, spoken by Boris Karloff in a Dutch-uncle mood...
Their digging on the Caspian done for this year, Coon and Dupree are already planning another expedition. Native workmen told them a fabulous tale of immense stone sculpture in another cave, hidden in high, wild mountains to the south. If they can, they will return next year. But time may be running out. Like other scientists, they fear the Russians will take over the "heartland" of archaeology...
...Titan," the absorbing story of Michelangelo, and "Beaver Valley," the fascinating tale of an anonymous animal kingdom, are also featured at the Beacon Hill. The marquee boasts that all three films are Academy Award winners. And all three speak well for the value of the award itself...
Jean Babilée is a dancer U.S. balletomanes have been hearing about, in brief flashes from Paris, since the end of the war. The first flash was that he could leap as no one since Nijinsky. Then came a tale of an astonishing physical feat: in Jean Cocteau's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), Babilée hung by his neck on a gallows for a full minute, with no more extra support than he could get from wrapping one arm around a pillar...
...Army veteran who had dropped $557 in a poker parlor came to the pastor with his tale of woe. George followed his directions ("Turn right at the top of the stairs, seventh door along the corridor on the right") and barged into a thriving dive just above the town's Bible Book Store...