Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shavian philosophy, it is undoubtedly one of the best directed, acted, and photographed pictures of the last few years. Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara, Robert Morley as Andrew Underschaft, and a newcomer named Robert Newton as Bill Walker, the tough mug who turns a leaf, all turn in brilliant performances. Here at last is a picture which credits the average movie-goer with more brains than a fourteen-year-old, and even if it is often too subtle and confusing. "Major Barbara" may be set down as a major achievement of British motion pictures. Hollywood please note...
Closest battle of the year has been between Leverett and Eliot for fifth position, and the two competitors now stand with only 15 points between them. Leverett did not win any major sports, but has been fairly consistent in its minor showing, while Eliot enjoyed a brilliant crew season, but has picked up few other points...
Despite a dearth of cars and evening dress, and a 6:30 curtain, London had its splashiest opening since the blitz last week - a Charles Cochran revue starring Beatrice Lillie. If Big Top itself was pretty routine, the star was brilliant, the atmosphere gala, the audience happy. Looking young as ever, Lillie cut up all over the place, stopped the show with a take-off on a blues singer, never for a second betrayed the fact that her young son had recently been reported missing by the Navy...
Some 20 front-line correspondents have been killed or captured since the U.S. went to war, including several believed to have faced Jap firing squads. Numbered with them last week was Melville Jacoby, brilliant, 25-year-old correspondent of TIME and LIFE who died instantly in the freak plane accident that killed Brigadier General Harold H. ("Pursuit") George at an advance air base in Australia...
...Harvard Blues" while Count Basie tinkled along behind him at the piano. But in the excitement of the occasion don't forget the local boys who made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than one fine chorus that night. The ones I have in mind particularly are George Springer, whose trumpet...