Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...petitioner, Mrs. George William Cottrell, appeared before the City Council yesterday to seek support for her scheme, which includes a provision that no road should cross the 36-acre area without a special act of Legislature...
...act curtain raiser by Tennessee Williams, This Property is Condemned, is equally well-performed, but the play is merely a minor re-working of the inevitable Williams theme of a woman who lives in a world of illusion. The boy who meets the tawdry heroine on a railroad embankment merely establishes the situation. Limited though it is, the part is well-handled by Walter McGinn. Jane Cronin is entrancing as she delivers this bubble-frail poetic monologue without benefit of scenery. She provides an object-lesson in good acting...
Behind Teller came a top-name team of experts on science and military matters to criticize and suggest. Dr. Vannevar Bush, able wartime director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, urged a revamping of the Armed Forces Unification Act "so that we can have in this country unified central military planning that transcends the interest of any particular service." Lieut. General James Doolittle warned that the U.S. must overhaul its educational system. "Certainly," said he, "the scientist and the educator must be given more prestige and more pay." Beyond that, said Doolittle, the Defense Secretary needs the services...
...then set out to see how U.S. industry operated. He returned from the U.S. convinced that Sicily should reject Italy's statist economic policy and instead open the doors to private investment. Says he: "Government has neither the means nor the ability to remake Sicily. But it must act to give private enterprise freedom and encouragement...
...brasher, more youthful performance in 1948, Gielgud's version is resigned, traditional, declamatory; but it emerges as a memorable reading. All in all, from the creepy wind sighings and distant bells on the battlements of Elsinore in the first scene to the swordplay and slaughter of the last act, this is a stirring and commendably complete production...