Word: brilliants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cameraman Gregg Toland, who recreates his subtle photographic touches of "Citizen Kane," and Patricia Collinge, who, as the garrulous and persecuted Birdie, gives to Miss Hellman's only real character-study, the same spirited portrayal that made it live on the stage. Always the artist, Mr. Toland makes brilliant use of the shadow and heightens the power of the climactic staircase scenes by shooting from unique angles...
Take four shop-talking doctors, a renegade artist with revolutionary ideas of morality, two more, less brilliant, medicos, and a very beautiful woman. Throw in a smattering of medical hokus-pocus, a cure for tuberculosis, two cases of that disease, and a love affair. Now you have some of the ingredients of George Bernard Shaw's merry play which Katharine Cornell has brought to Boston. One of the four doctors has the new cure, and the love affair. The two cases of the disease are given to the fifth doctor and the artist. The dilemma is this; Should the doctor...
...play is typically Shavian, marked by his brilliant dialogue, his sardonic philosophy, and a unique ending. The cast is excellent, and only a great actress like Katharine Cornell could outshine it. Even though her role is small, she carries the burden of the play, while Shaw laughs gaily at the world and the audience laughs with...
...their fantastic, nightmarish extreme U.S. tabloids never surpassed the strange journalism of Macfadden's late Graphic and Hearst's early Mirror under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, a brilliant, unhappy, sensitive, tough, crippled. French-Canadian-Irish, Connecticut-born newspaperman who now raises goats and chickens on a small farm near Philadelphia...
DEATH AND THE DANCING FOOTMAN-Ngaio Marsh-Little, Brown ($2). A deadly Maori instrument extinguishes a young Englishman at house party where everybody hates or fears everybody else-as prearranged by a thrill-seeking host. First half is brilliant British conversation piece, the remainder a prime bit of deduction and clew-chasing by Alleyn of C.I.D...