Word: vestale
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...plain life expresses some remarkably solid virtues. She burns continuously with what a friend calls "unmitigated sincerity." She loves or she hates; she gives everything or nothing. She is a one-man woman with a one-track mind. The theater is her religion and she serves it like a vestal. She has almost no material concerns. "She would work 20 hours a day for $20 a week if I didn't watch out," her husband says. It is hard for her to tell a lie, and she blazes in defense of the truth as she sees...
...GLORIA CHIARIELLO Vestal...
...much of Shaw's gently playful comedy the movie preserves-and only so much. Bypassing the play's philosophy and blunting its rapier wit, the Hollywood version offers instead some gaudy Colosseum sequences, complete with gladiators, lions and glamorous vestal virgins...
...Went to a costume banquet enlivened by a group of pretty "vestal virgins" (Italian extras...
...decided at the conference that Quo Vadis will open this fall-at advanced prices-in theaters the world over (it is now playing only in the U.S. and London); MGM's home-office agents will personally supervise exploitation, e.g., parades of vestal virgins, chariot-borna gladiators charging through the streets. M-G-M has decided against using the Colosseum for the Roman premiere of Quo Vadis. Acoustics and lighting conditions are just not up to the picture...