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...plantation. Long before he got to Sumatra he repented of his greed and wanted to go home, but because he had signed his mark to the contract it was too late. On the teak plantation Ruki, like most of his unfortunate fellows, lived the brutal life of a slave. His woman was taken from him. given to the white tuan. He lost his pay gambling. An attempted escape did him no good. At the end of his contract, because he was ashamed to go home as poor as he had left, he signed again...
...strained top notes there was little fault to find. Surprise was to see her appear as a lithe, graceful woman 25 Ib. thinner than she used to be, to see an Aida who appeared not like a prima donna stained brown for the occasion, but like the sultry, brooding slave girl that Verdi had in mind...
Claudia was a lady, in the English sense, but she worked like a slave in her London office to keep up a place in the country, a cantankerous husband who had not had a job since the War. three growing children. Most of her family, most of her friends thought Claudia a wonder, gave her their admiring pity for being such a cheerful martyr. But women are hard to fool about women. Her partner Sal, her sister Anna saw through Claudia. One of her daughters was beginning...
Fifteen years ago in Zurich a spindly, pint-sized girl of 17 marched onto the stage of the old Schanspielhaus and solemnly pretended to be an unfolding flower, a crow hopping in the fields, a shackled slave fighting fate. The girl had no claim to beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm...
...England's best-hated kings. When a young doctor named Peter Blood (Errol Flynn) is found treating a wounded rebel, he is summarily convicted of treason, sent to Jamaica to be sold into slavery with a group of other James-haters. The island's No. 1 slave-buyer is Colonel Bishop (Lionel At will), a savage sugar plantation owner who runs his cumbrous mill with slave power. Peter Blood is promoted from the mill when he successfully treats the governor's gout, but he does not forget his wretched comrades. Meanwhile his insolence has earned the bitter...