Word: vagabondism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Edward Chauvel, 62, Australian film producer who in 1931 sought an actor for a film called In the Wake of the Bounty, came upon a young vagabond sailor whose small boat had just been wrecked on a South Sea atoll, gave the late Errol Flynn his start; of a heart attack; in Sydney, Australia...
...Harvard CRIMSON of Saturday, October 31, there appeared a piece entitled, "The Vagabond: The From of Travel," describing a certain young man's efforts to obtain a scholarship grant to several foreign universities. We are of the opinion that this poor student's French section man, M. Plombier, was not the ame sympathique" as thought, but has thoroughly ruined the student's chances of receiving a grant from the French government by grossly misquoting the opening lines of Paul Verlaine's poem, "II Pleure Dans Mon Coeur." They should read...
...both mute and masked; it is only when he climbs into bed with his wife that he strips off his satanic guise and lets the audience in on his secret: he is really a good man with a perfectly normal voice, forced by poverty into becoming a "ridiculous vagabond, living a lie." Inevitably, the charlatans' show ends in disaster, but the magician gets his revenge: he plays dead and, in a sequence eerie as a Kafka nightmare, torments a doctor who wants to dissect him. And at film's end, after numbing humiliations, the troupe is invited...
Dallas, Texas, State Fair Music Hall: Wish You Were Here, a poolside musical with Shirley Jones (through July 5); Friml's swashbuckling old The Vagabond King, with Burgess Meredith...
Ever since Joan, Siobhan has starred as an international vagabond. "I go from country to country, and half the time I don't know where I am.'' But movies, stage or television, she always knows what she wants to be. "In England,'' she says, "first they wanted to change my name. I said: 'No, thank you; I don't know who was responsible for it, but obviously they went to a lot of trouble to think it up.' " In Hollywood, she had similar trouble. "They said...