Word: veils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seventh Veil (Sydney Box-Universal) is an English picture which sets out to resolve the romantic dilemmas of a lady concert pianist. It uses the relatively new medical technique of narcohypnosis as an excuse to use the old movie technique of the flashback. What is known in the trade as a "woman's picture," The Veil examines the frustrations of a basically good girl who is besieged by three far-from-perfect suitors. U.S. audiences may note that the psychiatric theme used in Hollywood's recent Spellbound has been more intelligently filmed by the British...
...first, Francesca (Ann Todd), a beautiful pianist whose fairly simple liking of men and pianos has led her into a complex state of emotional bewilderment, won't tell her doctors what ails her. It takes narcosis, hypnosis and a few bars of musical therapy to snatch the last veil of reserve from her tortured mind. As soon as the doctor's shot in the arm and soft talk begin to take effect, Francesca begins to remember a happy childhood followed by years of frustration. Her schoolmistress beats her across the knuckles; her bad-tempered but handsome guardian (James...
Queen Mary (she hates being called the Queen Mother) is as fond of the flicks as of the footlights. Her taste in films is catholic. This season she has already seen The Seventh Veil, Sailors Do Care (twice), the world premiere of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, and a sexy piece called The Wicked Lady, in which the earthiest dialogue had been discreetly toned down for one performance. (Next day Queen Mary alertly dispatched a lady in waiting to see the show and report what she had missed...
Usually the Queen satisfies her curiosity on the spot. After seeing The Seventh Veil, she sent for the youthful star, Ann Todd, and demanded: ''Tell me, my child, which of the three men did you choose? I couldn't tell-I didn't have my glasses...
...years the old Shah's splenetic energy also bulldozed medieval Iran into building an 860-mile railroad to span the country from north to south, erecting schools and factories, changing the country's name from provincial Persia to national Iran, abandoning the veil for women, accepting movies and traffic lights...