Word: thor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Millionaire for Christy (Thor Productions; 20th Century-Fox) falls, with a resounding thud, under the heading of madcap romantic farce. Heroine Christy (Eleanor Parker), a fortune-hunting legal secretary charged with telling a client (Fred MacMurray) that he has inherited $2,000,000, decides to make a favorable impression on the heir apparent before spilling the good news. She impresses him as a lunatic, disrupts his wedding, woos him in a boxcar, wins him with the connivance of a poor but dishonest psychiatrist (Richard Carlson). By the time MacMurray is convinced that the inheritance is actually his, the money...
...wife of a Tahitian planter who had entertained Voyager Thor Heyerdahl and friends at a hula party in Papeete decided that the dance was strictly a private affair, never meant for public eyes. Since Heyerdahl filmed it, then used a few seconds of the shot in his movie Kon-Tiki, she sued...
...Thor Heyerdahl was a determined scientist with a theory. It was his belief that a resolute young man, by rafting across the Pacific, could earn enough money to retire for life. "Kon-Tiki"--which has grossed him an estimated four million--has proven Heyerdahl's point, and it's also a darn good movie...
Christopher Fry has conceived an ageless moral problem in soft verse and poetic action. "Thor, With Angles" sets this problem in 6th century England where a Jute warrior repents his war spirit and, with fear and no dogmatism, becomes a Christian. "We are afraid," he says, in peroration, "To live by the rule of God, which is forgiveness,/Mercy and compassion, fearing that by these/ We shall be ended. And yet if we could bear/These three through dread and terror and terror's doubt . . . I cannot think/We should be the losers...
...Canterbury Players, sponsored by the H.D.C., will start a three-night run of "Thor, with Angels" this evening at 8:45 p.m. in the Christ Church Parish House. Robert Bershares, Wallace Macdonald '51, Sylvia Beers, and Helene Bailly will take the leads in the play by Christopher...