Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strip is a lugubrious lot of wealthy owners. Some are thoroughly respectable, but some are not. The Desert Inn is run by amiable Wilbur Clark, a hotelman with a large following, in partnership with a syndicate of erstwhile Cleveland racketeers. The luxurious Sands, scene of the recent Hayworth-Haymes extravaganza (TIME, Oct. 5), is owned by tiny, wizened Jake Friedman, who made his stake operating gambling casinos in Texas. The sprawling Flamingo was built by the late Bugsy Siegel before Bugsy met his untimely, slug-ridden end in Hollywood...
Like its Hollywood predecessors, The Robe translates a simple Biblical theme into extravaganza. It tells the story of Marcellus Gallio, the man who executed Christ, and of his eventual conversion to Christianity. Gallio, expertly played by Richard Burton, wins Christ's robe in a dice game beneath the Cross. He sees the robe first as a symbol of his own fear, later as the means to his salvation...
...numbers were largely disappointing-and at times, plainly dull. Then, last week, Sadler's brought on another new one, a bucolic, mythological tale entitled Sylvia. "Magnificent," cried Critic Walter Terry in the Herald Tribune. "The ducal birthright of the ballet is made manifest." "A sumptuous extravaganza," announced John Martin in the Times. "An exemplary performance...
Four Feathers is a classic story of heroism and the definite desert extravaganza. Although there are no harems nor luscious Arabian princesses, thousands of Fuzzy Wuzzies and General Kitchener's valiant army stage a race riot that ought to please the most sadistic audience. Korda has taken full advantage of the possibilities of Technicolor to focus his camera on open wounds at every opportunity...
Perhaps in a sentimental mood, the academy gave the Oscar for "best picture" to Cinema Pioneer Cecil B. DeMille, 71, for his moneymaking circus extravaganza, The Greatest Show on Earth (already No. 2 on Hollywood's list of all-time big grossers...