Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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King James version: "Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature...
Since OSS was probing for the Weltschmerz in the German soul, the bouncy original lyrics were worked over until the death-wish showed through. Time on My Hands originally saw "nothing but love in view"; Marlene's version points out darkly that "the end has to come sooner or later." Taking a Chance on Love, once a devil-may-care ditty, pictures a cross standing "in the evening gold," marking the end of life and love. Translated excerpt (a German soldier speaking...
...grandsons were at it again. Last year they shocked old-line Wagnerites by ditching the old three-dimensional scenery, stripping heroines of their winged helmets, and generally flouting sacred traditions. Last week, continuing to modernize grandfather, they opened the second postwar season at Bayreuth with a streamlined version of Tristan and Isolde...
Park Row (Samuel Fuller; United Artists), a short street in Lower Manhattan where almost all of the city's daily newspapers were published between 1872 and 1892, was once the symbol of U.S. journalism. But judging from this purely fictional version of the U.S. press in the 19th century, Park Row flowed with blood rather than ink. Snarling, two-fisted Phineas Mitchell (Gene Evans), publisher of the Globe, spent most of his time feuding with beautiful Charity Hackett (Mary Welch), publisher of the rival Star. It was not until the two publishers decided to merge mastheads and themselves that...
Carrie. Polished movie version of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, with Jennifer Jones and Laurence Olivier as star-crossed lovers (TIME, June...