The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952

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August Strindberg.

2. Björn Björnson.

3. Emil Ludwig.

4. Pär Lagerkvist.

5. Hans Christian Andersen.

74. Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead, as the First Drama Quartette, have let the country hear some much-neglected dialectical fireworks—the hell scene in:

1. Hamlet.

2. Paradise Lost.

3. The Aeneid.

4. Man and Superman.

5. Job.

75. Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh set some of the sharpest prose in the modern theater against some of the greatest poetry of all time when they opened in the two plays:

1. The Cocktail Party and Richard III.

2. Pygmalion and The Lady's Not For Burning.

3. Lysistrata and Seventh Heaven.

4. Desire Under The Elms and Macbeth.

5. Caesar and Cleopatra and Antony and Cleopatra.

76. Although the reviews were mixed, it was strictly thumbs up with London audiences when this poodle-haired actress opened there in her Broadway success:

1. Oklahoma!

2. Three Men on a Horse.

3. Carousel.

4. South Pacific.

5. Call Me Madam.

77. Still a delightfully fresh musical eleven years after it first opened on Broadway is the revival which stars Vivienne Segal and Harold Lang in:

1. As Thousands Cheer.

2. The Desert Song.

3. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

4. Pal Joey.

5. Red Hot and Blue.

78. Hollywood embodies its belief that nothing succeeds like excess in the costliest movie ever made:

1. David and Bathsheba.

2. The Greatest Show on Earth.

3. The Browning Version

4. Across the Wide Missouri.

5. Quo Vadis.

79. Bulging with barbaric force—and insight into human frailty—Rashomon, grand prizewinner at the Venice Film Festival, is a product of:

1. Japan.

2. J. Arthur Rank.

3. France.

4. MGM.

5. Italy.

80. Honored by Boston with a big retrospective show of his architecture including a model of his Bauhaus was:

1. Frank Lloyd Wright.

2. Marcel Breuer.

3. Walter Gropius.

4. Wallace K.Harrison.

5. Le Corbusier.

81. Death came in January to this bearded sculptor of celebrities:

1. Jacob Epstein.

2. Cecil Howard.

3. Auguste Rodin.

4. Jo Davidson.

5. Henry Moore.

Radio & Television

82. One of TV's most literate offerings is "See It Now," presented by the veteran CBS commentator:

1. John Cameron Swayze.

2. Fulton Lewis Jr.

3. Edward R. Murrow.

4. H. V. Kaltenborn.

5. Raymond Gram Swing.

83. Gloom settled thicker in the Loop. NBC axed 15 minutes off another "Chicago" TV show, the intelligent fantasy:

1. Space Cadet.

2. Tales of Tomorrow.

3. Howdy Doody.

4. Kukla, Fran & Ollie.

5. Texaco Star Theater.

84. The clinging, faintly accented voice of Marlene Dietrich pervades her new ABC radio show:

1. Blue Angel.

2. John's Other Wife's Other Husband.

3. Suspense.

4. Café Istanbul.

5. Algiers.

Science and Medicine

85. Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario houses the first "Cobalt Bomb," medical science's newest weapon against

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