Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government wants to avert the threatened steel strike, it should investigate the possibilities of a revised revenue act...
...Joseph Haydn's day, and last week the vision glowed warmly on the stage of The Hague's Royal Theater as part of the Holland Festival. Occasion: the first complete performance since Haydn's time of his opera The World of the Moon (its original third act was lost, was recovered by U.S. Musicologist H.C. Robbins Landon...
...brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide and ghost...
...great work of cinematic art, it is a sometimes ponderous failure. The fault is not entirely Producer Goldwyn's. The original Broadway musical ('TIME, Oct. 21, 1935), a good try at the great American folk opera, is troubled with an awkward, ill-paced plot-the last act falls flat because all the best tunes are used up in the early part of the show. The libretto, by Charleston-born Novelist DuBose Heyward, is full of the sort of amiable condescension toward the "darkies" that used to pass for progressiveness in the South. What really matters in the show...
...with a chaperone, a pressagent and nine suitcases containing 25 costume changes (including a native dress for each land she would visit). But she had little time to enjoy them. Hardly was she through with her style show when she had to hop a plane to repeat the same act in Tokyo, then on to Osaka, Hong Kong, Manila, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Honolulu and San Francisco...