Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the wide, wild sweep of Kashmir's back country, British Author H. E. Bates has followed Correspondent Crane up a familiar narrative trail. Its destination: that old tried-and-tired Grand Hotel situation, into which the invading Pathans burst as uninvited guests. Some cleanly chronicled violence whets The Scarlet Sword's edge. But no amount of honing can file away such a collection of rusty cliches as the turnabout of the shunned prostitute who finally reveals her heart of gold; Correspondent Crane's scorn at first sight and love at second for the English girl...
...plane was lost. Next day the wreckage was sighted in the high Andes, 55 miles to the east. His black cassock flying, Padre Vélaz clambered aboard a special plane. By nightfall, with 15 volunteers and a hardy baqueano (ranger),the padre was climbing up the craggy trail toward the lofty Páramo de Dos Torres...
...show offers less a new version than a misguided variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing in Santa Claus...
...movie's awe of the Queen and her handsome surroundings proves an excellent foil for the incongruous invasion of Windsor Castle by a cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray), who absently spews a trail of plum pits as he wanders bug-eyed through the imposing halls and chambers. The picture also unbends enough to twit Victorian manners & morals...
...dint of hanging around theater exits with an autograph album and writing very polite letters to celebrities, young Fred soon got on signature terms with everyone from Arnold Bennett to George Bernard Shaw. A few literary lions headed into the deep bush when they scented Fred on their trail. Poet John Masefield, for instance, responded to Fred's advances with a "chilly" printed card, and that "awful snob" Rudyard Kipling, trapped by Fred outside a museum, "raised his stick as I raised my hat." But for the most part Fred managed to turn his literary relationships into a neat...