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While most of Japan's movies are for domestic audiences, the biggest producers, lured by the success of Rashomon and Ugetsu in the U.S., were scrambling last week to release films for the American market. The export pictures are mostly "sword swingers," Oriental versions of the U.S. horse opera, in which Japan's feudal swordsmen are the heroes. Tokyo's Toho (Eastern Treasure) Co. plans to release its $350,000 Seven Samurai, which won a prize at this year's Venice Festival, early in 1955 as "a Japanese western" (33,000 extras, 2,300 horses). Next...
...morning last week Anthony Eden skipped an important Cabinet meeting. At the summons of Queen Elizabeth, he hurried to the white and gold drawing room of Buckingham Palace. The young Queen bade him kneel before her, and with a glittering sword touched him on each shoulder. When he arose, Britain's handsome Foreign Secretary was Sir Anthony Eden, Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter...
...claims, this "new creed that gave them to understand that man was God's vicar on earth," that brought about the mass conversions to Islam during the great Moslem expansion that reached as far as Spain. It was "not a legendary 'conversion at the point of the sword.' " But Asad does not ignore the centuries of stagnation that overcame a vigorous society: "As soon as their faith became habit and ceased to be a program of life . . . the creative impulse . . . gradually gave way to indolence, sterility and cultural decay...
Glass in the Gum. Such biweekly settos are a "reformed" remnant of medieval tournaments in which Thai warriors jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There...
...heady pages of historical novels, readers can be led on the straightest of fictional lines, past drawn sword and torn corsage, to the very bosom of the past. This fall's crop of historicals, ranging from Periclean Greece to 19th century North Africa, has everything the customers like, including a little history, but not too much...