Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just as their ancestors brought metal and pottery objects to their gods to seek good fortune. Then an Indian cast in the role of Lucifer, masked and cloaked in red velvet, capered into the area before the church doors. Thus began La Diablada (The Devilishness), Oruro's own version of the ancient auto sacramental (religious play...
...Browning Version. Michael Redgrave as an English public-school teacher burdened with humiliating failure until Playwright-Scripter Terence Rattigan helps him to straighten up (TIME...
Detective Story. Director William Wyler's exciting version of the Sidney Kingsley stage hit, with Kirk Douglas as the overrighteous detective and Eleanor Parker as his less-than-perfect wife (TIME...
...Browning Version...
Written by the Restoration dramatist William Congreve and set by Handel in 1743, the work has since been converted into a secular oratorio, and excerpts from it are often heard. But the Musical Society's presentation of the operatic version will be the first such performance in this country...