Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Ingrid Bergman, 39, signed up with 20th Century-Fox studio to do the title role in a film version of the Broadway hit Anastasia (TIME, Jan. 10). The movie will not be shot in the U.S., Ingrid's adopted homeland until 1949, when she left to star in the film Stromboli ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), deserted her surgeon husband for Italian Director Roberto Rossellini on the raging Mediterranean island, later married little Roberto's proud papa...
...program also included Puccini's Gloria Mass, a work written in the composer's student days. The music was decidedly uneven, containing fine lyrical passages such as a strong theme for unison chcorus at the words "et unam sanctam." Much of the music, however, sounded like an Italian version of second-rate Schubert. It was the piece's first and probably last Boston performance...
Herald's version had set Daily Mail phones ringing with complaints from readers who knew better, reportedly including Sir Winston himself-or so Author Herald said he had it from the Daily Mail editor. In Paris, where Newsman Herald lives, he admitted that he had not seen or talked with Sir Winston in putting together his story. But he dismissed the whole ruckus with a simple explanation: "Churchill obviously does not like it to be known that he is growing...
...musical is a new version of "Love Rides the Rails," written by a WPA-sponsored playwright during the Depression. "Although the play was not written by a graduate of the College," Truslow said, "we were forced to use it because of the technical difficulties presented by our first play, 'The Golden Fleecer.'" Fortunately, "Love Rides the Rails" seemed to fit right in with our original preparations for "The Golden Fleecer...
...facts of the matter are (1) that Esperanto is carried by an ideology which is inimical to many things I and my fellow promoters of Interlingua hold sacred, and (2) that I consider the whole idea of a universal auxiliary language impractical and undesirable, including even the electronic version envisaged by Professor Whatmough...