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Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week...
...pine-covered heights of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, like a giant motel that was somehow mistakenly plopped down in a forest. Here and there a lonely figure in khakis scurried across the shimmering terrazzo courtyards and disappeared into a wall of glass. Then suddenly, into the woodland slumber burst the sound of a brass band and the clack-clack of boot-steps-and up the ramp into the spacious grounds marched 450 men, battlegarbed in steel helmets and full field packs. Their young faces were almost hidden by the helmets as they marched, and they strained to achieve...
...liquidated in 1952), held the principal interest in Western Union (which he sold out in 1952). He owned a 47-acre Connecticut estate at Fairfield, a house with a dining room imported from the 18th century London home of David Garrick, 6,500 acres of Maine farm-and woodland, and six Saint Bernards. At this point of conspicuous prestige, on June 17, 1952. Fox signed a contract to buy the 121-year-old Boston Post. From then on, the road led down...
...sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party and a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, he is anything but a dull-minded party hack. As a top member of the Soviet elite, he is friendly and debonair, with a squire's taste for boating and woodland walks, and an amateur's cultivated devotion to the theater. He also has a politician's sense of expediency...
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...