Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...splashing does of technicolor. Ethel Merman is the film's biggest asset, launching into her songs with a driving enthusiasm that shames Dan Dailey, who is busy worrying about his errant showtime son, Donald. O'Connor hoofs and melodizes in his usual manner, but looks like the Soap-Box Derby Winner with a Cadillac when he romances with a healthier and heftier Marilyn. For all her eye and hip rolling, Monroe is unable to project effectively as she did in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She mouthes through several enticers, including "Heat Wave" and "After You Get What You Want...
...season, Barrie's classic displayed a rusty but apparently indestructible cleverness, a dusty but still perceptible appeal. If the play sometimes seems quaint, that is perhaps because every woman knows so much more than she did in 1908. But few playwrights today know half as much about smart box-office methods as Barrie did then. After 46 years, his sense of theater and shrewd manipulation of sentiment still...
FREER TRADE POLICY has been upheld again by President Eisenhower. Overriding recommendations of the Tariff Commission, the President rejected any boost in import duties of screen-printed silk scarves mostly from Japan, has also turned down, a request for import quotas on wood screws from Western Europe. The presidential box score, thus far: eleven nays, eight yeas on requests for higher import barriers...
...hundred and fifty men and women who met Byron and wrote about him enter the witness box to testify to his character-and leave the judge owl-eyed and the jury hung. The outlines of the story will be familiar to readers of Byron biographies, but not most of the details, which have been culled from widely scattered sources-diaries, letters, magazines, rare 19th century books...
...modest. Nobody was trying to make a great picture. The settings, in the British countryside, were lovely-wide swards and sleepy old castles and glens full of light. Best of all, Disney was careful to choose his principals-Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Rice, Bobby Driscoll-not for their box-office rating or sexual decibel, but rather as friends are chosen, for their good human faces and pleasant ways. As a result, each of the pictures was just what a children's classic is supposed to be: a breath of healthy air blown in from the warm meadows...