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Changed Color. Not even unconquered tribes dared to oppose a man whose executioners would cut open 100 pregnant women to satisfy their ruler's transient interest in embryology, whose fierce regiments would slaughter each other unless quartered in widely separated kraals. Toward the white man, however, Shaka assumed a friendly mien. The first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland...
...Saturday and Sunday, April 4, and Saturday and Sunday, April 10 and 11. Between April 5 and April 9, Kresge Dining Hall at the Business School and the Harkness Commons Dining Hall will be open to students. Meals may be paid for with coupons or cash at transient rates. All dining halls will re-open on Monday, April...
Autumn's strongest scenes turn on the senseless murder of a Cheyenne by transient cowpokes, and the tribe's ritual slaying of a brave (Sal Mineo) who has taken another man's wife. Here and in the stoic, timeless beauty of Squaw Dolores Del Rio are intimations of the tragedy that might have been. Most of the time, though, Ford scatters his beleaguered redskins listlessly across a 70-mm. Super Panavision landscape, showing twice the width but little of the scope that distinguished such Ford classics as Stagecoach. Perhaps he feels alien to Indians...
...felt moved to write a tribute to Coward too. "Here, through and through, is a craftsman," explained the Times, "who has remained at the top of his profession for longer perhaps than any other living English playwright, simply because he has dedicated his life not to attitudes or to transient theatrical movements but to getting on with his work to the best of his ability." Coward has just finished supervising the London production of his High Spirits, which is a long-running hit on Broadway. BBC television has done four Coward plays, full length, in successive weeks. And a fresh...
...shake itself awake for two stage-splintering dance numbers featuring a pair of agile Corybantes, Paula Kelly and Jo Jo Smith. It is dispiriting to watch Arthur Hill and Barbara Cook, as novelist and wife, dutifully pouring their talents into such hackwork, but the job promises to be mercifully transient...