Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just overpowered and temporarily hidden...
...General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, worriedly and unwillingly presiding over the liquidation of U.S. military power, the only solution was a universal military training act, which would supply a reservoir of trained men. In General Marshall's plan, such a reservoir could be tapped immediately, and thrown in with the National Guard and the Regular Army to create a force of 4,000,000 men. Only then, said Marshall, would the world continue to respect the U.S. and believe that it really meant what it said-that it would help to keep peace in the world...
...Town. The first night in Paris was a nightmare. I found myself in a complete mental vacuum. What did civilians talk about? What did they do? How did they act? As a matter of fact, were civilians people...
There was no real defense against the atom bomb. There was no precedent for handling atomic energy. There was no sure and safe policy. Congress would just have to do its frightened best. The rest of the world would act accordingly...
After a vocal first act, Sherwood fills his finale with action packed thrills and suspense. Spencer Tracy, once a vaccillating editor, joins the navy and finds himself a cook on a destroyer in the midst of a South Pacific naval fracas...