Tag: Cecil B. DeMille

  • Arts & Culture

    The search for a California sphinx

    At what other event would you hear, “This time there would be no Jell-O?” mused Egyptologist Peter Der Manuelian last Wednesday at the Harvard Art Museums. It sounded like a line straight from the wildly popular Science and Cooking Public Lecture Series, but the actual setting was a discussion and screening of a motion picture…

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    Scene from “The Ten Commandments,” 1923.