Word: barbered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven, Willie Mosconi was wan and trigger-tempered. In South Philadelphia he was famed as a deadly accurate pool shooter. Many an afternoon he shuffled into his father's barber shop and heard his Pa say: "Willie, there's a man in the back room who thinks he's better than you." Willie would grab a cue and go to work-with Pa betting as high as $100 on his boy. Business was brisk, and Willie got better with...
Other officials named include: Jerome S. Bruner, lecturer on Social Psychology, vice-president; Albert S. Coolidge '15, lecturer on Chemistry, treasurer; Bernard Barber '39, teaching fellow in Social Relations, recording secretary; and Jacob C. Levenson, teaching fellow in History, corresponding secretary...
...Barber of Seville (Tespi; Excelsior), made in Italy, is a full-length movie opera. It is a pretty good comedy-dressed up in Rossini's very good music-about a shrewd fixer who helps a love-struck count in his courtship of a girl whose guardian wants her for himself. The course of true love involves a full-throated serenade, a sneaked love letter, a couple of disguises, some comic policemen, and denouements in which the entire company tears around singing its head off. The Italian lyrics are occasionally paraphrased in English captions, and before each act, Deems Taylor...
...movie devices. It is good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian's villainous henchman, suggests a demented Lionel Barrymore...
...Barber appears to have been made without enough money; the lighting and sets are a little drab, and the recording is not all it might be. Those who prefer a good, fast movie had better stay away. Those who like opera will have a good time at this picture. And even those who regard opera as silly may find that silliness can be enjoyable...