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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DeMille likes to do things with an even more lavish hand. The Ten Commandments, with Yul Brynner, Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, some 20,000 extras and a 300,000-gallon tank filled with water to play the Red Sea, is budgeted at $8,000,000. But the film version of the story of Moses from the time he is taken from the bulrushes until, a bearded old man, he climbs Mount Nebo, is expected, almost literally, to run forever in movie houses throughout the world. The picture will take at least 3½ hours to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Going Like 70 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...play, closing on a lame, stagy note, lacks stature. Perhaps there is a little too much of everything: Williams is not only lavish of suffering, but voluble in articulating it. There might well be less emotionalism and should certainly be fewer words, particularly profane ones: the profanity often seems to relieve Williams' own feelings rather than his characters'. But more important, Cat never quite defines itself as chiefly a play about a marriage, about a family, or about a man. And if it means to be a complex of all three, it needs sharper form, greater unity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...pits a well-drilled squad of mechanics worked steadily to keep Millionaire Sportsman Briggs Cunningham's front-running D-Jaguar ahead of the field. Scores of dockers spelled each other in the lavish Cunningham trailer as they tried to keep track of the competition, to warn Drivers Mike Hawthorne and Phil Walters when the pack was closing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won? | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...Left Feet. To viewers who were still warmly remembering the enchantment of Mary Martin and Peter Pan on NBC, CBS bravely offered a lavish musical version of Burlesque, starring Dan Dailey and Marilyn Maxwell. The show had everything-jokes, dances, action-except the ability to make viewers care very much about what happened to the leading characters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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