Androcles and the Lion
Americannoun
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Born in Kuala Lumpur, Gough started his career in the 1946 television movie Androcles and the Lion.
From BBC • Mar. 17, 2011
The Pitoeff company playing at the Comedie Champs Elysees, in The Lower Depths, Androcles and the Lion and others, are almost always interesting.
From Time Magazine Archive
One suggested that the beast cut its paw on a Coca-Cola bottle, another thought the lion was a character actor from a traveling troupe of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
A dash of Shaw is offered in Androcles and the Lion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, Harry read the story of Androcles and the Lion, and asked how it was that one person should be the servant of another and bear so much ill-treatment.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction by Mee, Arthur
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