Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sumerians. They, drained the marshes of the delta and built a highly developed civilization of irrigated fields, pastures and theocratic city states. An 8-to-10-ft. deposit of clay from about 4000 B.C. indicates a possible Sumerian basis for the Biblical story of the Flood, and the Sumerian version has its Noah-a good man named Ziusudra who was instructed by two gods how to build an ark and save himself and his family from the inundation that would destroy mankind. Like Noah, Ziusudra determined when the waters had subsided by releasing birds from...
...quite smoothly, suggesting the not altogether happy possibility that A Christmas Carol may endure on TV till the cows come home. It also stirred some speculation about what the dickens the TV adapters may do next with the Yule classic. The time may be ripening for a modern-dress version, with Scrooge as a tough old union boss; a psychiatric adaptation ("These hallucinations of yours," says Scrooge's analyst nephew, "suggest a guilt syndrome"); or even a major switch as foreseen in a recent cartoon in which a clubroom lounger growls of his book...
Adapter William Nichols conceived of the TV version as fantasy-all a dream of Feste the clown-set in the rococo grandeur of an 18th century pleasure park. For scenery and costumes, Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian borrowed brilliantly from the delicate woodland scenes of Watteau and Fragonard, gave the NBC color cameras an enchanting palette of shimmering pastels. Through a dream world as mannered as a minuet glided fauns, harlequins and unicorns, dwarf attendants and monkey footmen. Olivia (Frances Hyland) wooed the disguised Viola (radiantly played by Rosemary Harris) while floating in an elegant barge. When Malvolio (Maurice Evans) puffed...
...heard her read, he offered her the main part. The picture was a hit, and papa gave in; she enrolled at Zurich's School of Theatrical Arts. "She worked like the devil," says one of her instructors. Within a few months she was starring in a stage version of the film she had made. The critics were impressed, the audience was overwhelmed, her fellow actors were appalled. She stole scene after scene with the cunning of a crow, and when she was charged with the larceny, she only blinked her big round eyes and vowed that it was only...
...Maria has said yes to none of them. Last week in a Hamburg studio she finished dubbing the German version of a recent film, and then went to Munich for a little holiday with husband Horst. "I've only had three weeks' vacation since I was 18," she says, "and I need a rest. Ach! I don't know where I get the strength." In Munich she likes to lounge among the Barock madonnas that fill her pretty white villa on the fashionable Pienzenauerstrasse. She calls her husband Goldschädtzchen (Little Golden Treasure), and when people...