Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experimental Theatre has not yet found the perfect blend of music, dance and drama. Even in Davey Crockett, the dancing sometimes jars against the songs or the rather static storytelling. But at week's end, it seemed good enough entertainment to risk letting the public pay for a look...
...Iron Curtain (20th Century-Fox) is the fact-fictional story of the Soviet-Canadian atomic spy ring, and of how it was cracked (TIME, March 11, 1946). It centers on the Soviet Embassy Code Clerk Igor Gouzenko (Dana Andrews with a short haircut) who did the cracking. An odd blend of naivete and expert craftsmanship, the picture is an above-average spine-chiller. It is also topnotch anti-Communist propaganda...
...heroic with one leg in a low-comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism and caricature is Beulah Bondi as the richest woman in town. Another pleasing sight is Veronica Lake as a charming and capable comedienne. Good line: Veronica brushing off an infatuated ten-year-old with a brisk "I'm spoke...
...Stefan Zweig, has the makings of an engaging kind of romantic movie that Hollywood seems to have lost its knack for. The setting is Old (turn-of-the-century) Vienna. The story: what happens when romantic love collides with fly-by-night love. The manner of telling is a blend of nostalgia and sad worldly-wisdom...
Miss Buck relies for throb-appeal on a blend of the Abie's Irish Rose and Cinderella themes. Peony is written in a soggy prose and stilted pidgin that suggest a kind of mimicry of Miss Buck's previous work. Her heroine, pretty Chinese bondmaid Peony, is in the service of a wealthy Jewish family, the Ezras. As such she tends flowers, serves tea, and prepares the bed of her "young master," David Ezra. It will surprise no reader to learn that behind Peony's ornamental exterior beats the passionate heart of a woman wildly in love...