Word: braved
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...screen, the silent screen, the uncluttered stage of Shakespeare and Marlowe, even the book in an armchair before the fire all have had their stimulating moments. What wonders may now be expected of a medium which out-engulfs all these predecessors and makes every man a voyager to a brave new world...
...fine show, and Disney's techniques seem particularly suited to Barrie's nimble story. So those who have sampled the stage production will do well to savor the new product. Those who have never applauded for Tinkerbelle's life should brave the throng of popcorn munching gamins and see it before they grow up and it's too late...
...learning their lesson in civil defense, each scratches his soul for a wartime philosophy. "It's the seventh game in the World Series," the cattleman sighs, "and this time, we're the home team." Amid the atomic destruction, there is also a seamy romance between a cynical but brave newspaperman, Gerald Mohr, and a sullen barfly, Peggic Castle...
Covent Garden gave Lenora an enthusiastic welcome, and the applause at the end was not just for a brave try. Lenora had stage presence, and her voice reached to the farthest tiers of the opera house. Since it was not a first-night performance, few critics were on hand. But the Daily Express' Cecil Smith, often a carper, came and was conquered. Wrote Smith: a voice of "exceptional beauty and vitality...
Mississippi Gambler has plenty of feudin' and fightin' with pistols, swords and fists. The men are brave and handsome, and the women good and beautiful. Evil is punished and right rewarded. With a rambling the script and lackadaisical direction, the picture, like Ol' Man River, just keeps rolling along to its predictable Technicolored happy ending...