Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says he: "Hollywood is a vacuum in which criticism doesn't exist . . . The only way you can get a really honest opinion of your work is to get in front of an audience that pays to see you. Then you know in a minute if you're bad." Among the players who have kept the audiences paying for Broadway revivals: Eve Arden, Barry Sullivan, Ruth Hussey, Guy Madison, Diana Lynn, Sylvia Sidney, Reginald Denny, Jane Cowl Ann Harding, Laraine Day, Martha Scott the late Dame May Whitty...
...grass, handkerchiefs on their heads as protection against the hot sun. They listened attentively to the rasping voice of Labor Prime Minister Clement Attlee; the silence was broken only when the miners murmured approval as he reminded them how much better working conditions were now than in the bad old days...
...opera-loving San Franciscans, it was the nearest thing to an earthquake since 1906. It was bad enough that the trustee of the War Memorial Opera House had refused to let Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad sing there next season (TIME, July 25). Last week the sponsoring Opera Association Board set off a temblor of its own: if Flagstad could not sing, for the first time in 27 years there would be no opera season...
...fabulous epoch, the 1920s. As Fitzgerald told it, it was also a spiritual history of those young Americans who from disillusionment, boredom, or the simple sense of belonging nowhere and to nothing, called themselves the "lost generation." The story of the movie is largely a story of bad casting. In the role of Gatsby, which calls for extraordinary warmth and a wide range of mood, Alan Ladd looks about as comfortable as a gunman at a garden party. Betty Field, though she gives a finished performance as the poor little rich girl Gatsby loves, is subtly wrong for the part...
...Clark Gable) is pure gold. Owner of a legal gambling establishment, Gable is devoted to his wife (Alexis Smith) and his only son Paul (Darryl Hickman). He potters about his cluttered middle-class cellar like any respectable family man, and, like many a middle-aged business executive, nurses a bad heart and frustrated hopes for a fishing trip. Above all, he is "a nut for human dignity" (as one of his employees puts it) and always has a kind word and a fistful of bills for the men he has ruined...