Word: ann
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...Captain Brassbound's Conversion," the story of how a woman converts a purposeless brigand into a purposeful one, is supposedly dominated by the female lead, Cicely Wayneflete. As played by Ann Revere this character is weak, inconsistent, and incapable of forcing the last act climax that Shaw envisioned. According to the script she is a woman who is to have her own way, and yet the awe with which her presence is greeted at the end of the first act hardly seems merited. One indeed wonders why her every word is met with instantaneous servility...
Playwright John Balderston's old trick with time-turning his hero's hindsight into prophetic genius-is still a neat trick, and the new movie has some fun with it. But Actor Power lacks Actor Howard's charm and talent, and his inter-century romance with Ann Blyth (who turns up at the end in a 20th century reincarnation) makes something gooey and adolescent out of what once seemed hauntingly otherworldly. The picture may give moviegoers a yen to go backward in time themselves, if only to 1933, when Leslie Howard was starring in Berkeley Square...
...only child, Ann Francis portrays all the scatter-brained qualities of a college graduate. Heading for a career in industrial design, she plans to go to Switzerland. Then within three minutes she falls in love ("like I was drowning") with one of her professors, elopes, and spends the rest of the film getting mad at him. Meanwhile, her parents and the professor's family chase after the couple to prevent marriage and, in the end, encourage it. Very confusing indeed, but never before have two people eloped twice in the same picture...
...royal hand in the squabble before it was too late. To his personal royal cabinet he named two men whose foreign policy runs directly counter to the Wafdists'. Into office as chief of the royal cabinet (which has no explicit powers, but advises the King) went Dr. Hafez Ann Pasha, Ambassador to Great Britain from 1936 to 1938 (and admiring author of The English in Their Homes), lately head of the Bank Misr, one of the largest financial houses in the Arab world. In as royal adviser on foreign affairs went Old Oxonian Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha (TIME...
Born. To Deborah Kerr, 30, British cinemactress (Colonel Blimp) who has settled in Hollywood (King Solomon's Mines, Quo Vadis), and Anthony Bartley, 34, producer of adventure movie shorts: their second child, second daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Francesca Ann. Weight...