Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the tale could be told. It covered the familiar stories of lack of hospitals, lack of food and clothing, vermin-infested camps, corporal punishment of prisoners, death by decapitation of a U.S. airman on New Guinea, name not disclosed. (From Korea came a story of U.S. prisoners on Jap ships, crazed with thirst, biting their arms and drinking their own blood, perishing when the ships were bombed by U.S. planes...
...apartment, keeps phoning her husband at his office, gets nothing but a busy signal. She finally persuades the operator to dial the number for her, is cut in on a conversation between two men making plans for murder. Cut off, she calls the police, who listen to her frantic tale with half an ear and hang up. After a good deal of hysterical hocuspocus, she decides that the two men had been hired by her husband to kill...
...Song of Bernadette" is a simple tale, and it is told with sympathetic restraint. The usual gaudy theatrics are nowhere present to mar the strength of Franz Werfel's tale of the miracle of Lourdes. The screen writing is first rate; if any film ever possessed material to inspire its audience, "The Song of Bernadette" is that picture. Franz Werfel's imaginative reproduction of a modern revelation makes a very superior movie...
...weeks, for months . . . from year to year, I would carry on the same tale, binding myself down to certain laws, to certain proportions, and proprieties, and unities. Nothing impossible was ever introduced ... I myself was of course my own hero. . . . But I never became a king, or a duke. ... I never was a learned man, nor even a philosopher. But I was a very clever person, and beautiful young women used to be fond...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...