Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Senate: ¶ Passed the Minimum Wage Act...
WASHINGTON--Opponents of a draft extension beyond the present May 15 expiration hoped tonight to force through an amendment that will keep the act alive but suspend inductions...
...picture opens on an Oliver reproduction of the Globe Theater and follows him and his company through the first "act" of the play as Olivier imagines it was performed in Shakespeare's time. Although it might be argued that the cinematic version of the Globe contains inaccuracies of construction, this taste of the full flavor of the Elizabethan stage, of the intimacy of contact between the actors and the audience, the roll of the eye and the spoken aside followed by a howl of laughter, makes this first part of the picture in its way the most delightful...
...important nations. "The real protection," said the five, "will lie in the fact that if any nation seizes the plants or the stockpiles that are situated in its territory, other nations [besides receiving clear warning] will have similar facilities and materials situated within their own borders so that the act of seizure need not place them at a disadvantage...
...French Princess (Renee Asherson) has the backward-bending grace of a medieval statuette of the Virgin. Her reedy, birdlike exchange of French-English with her equally delightful duenna, Alice (Ivy St. Helier), is a vaudeville act exquisitely paced and played beyond anything that Shakespeare can have imagined. Her closing scene with Henry-balanced about equally between Olivier's extraordinarily deft delivery of his lines and her extraordinary deft pantomimic -pointing of them -is a charming love scene...