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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
    AK>> I even heard that articles in titles are not necessary   
    AK>> in English at all.   
      
                            [...]   
      
    AK>  I meant newspaper titles, for instance:   
      
    AK>  Taiwan train crash: Lorry boss offers 'deep remorse'   
      
      
             Ah... I was thinking of songs, books, movies, etc.  You were   
   thinking of newspaper headlines, where direct & indirect articles are usually   
   omitted.   
      
      
      
    AK>> So it easily could be "Beaty and Beast", isn't it?   
      
      
             BEAUTY & BEAST SOON TO WED... possibly.  One could read the   
   headlines and skip the details, except that nowadays it seems headlines are   
   often written by robots & may or may not summarize the content accurately...   
   [wry grin].   
      
             I understand this style originated in byegone days when news was   
   sent from place to place by telegraph, and a long article might be truncated   
   because e.g. a tree had fallen down on the wires between here & there.  It's   
   still more common than not to include as much "who-what-when-why-where-how" as   
   possible in the headline &/or the first few sentences.  But even nowadays a   
   headline may be what grabs the attention of passers-by & they may be motivated   
   to find out more if whatever else they can take in at a glance seems   
   interesting enough....  :-)   
      
      
      
    AH>  In this tale "the beast" is a prince under a magic spell.   
    AH>  Whatever his real name is I doubt it's "Beast", although   
    AH>  he's listed that way in the movie credits.   
      
    AK>  IMHO it's the same like Belle listed as a beauty. well,   
    AK>  I'll read the original and say more. ;)   
      
      
             The original version of this story?  It is a folk/fairy tale,   
   meaning there are a lot of different variations.  The first known version   
   dates back to 1740 & was written in French... but the story is apparently much   
   older.   
      
             If you want to research such things for yourself I'd highly   
   recommend Ladybird Books, published in the UK some time ago.  Although I would   
   like to be more specific I'm a bit out of my depth re corporate mergers &   
   whatnot....  :-Q   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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