Word: byplay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although handicapped by a threadbare plot, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard, with their superb acting, are responsible for making "Disputed Passage" a good picture. With Tamiroff as the surgeon of fame and Howard as the struggling, idealistic medical student, the action centers around the byplay between these two characters which gives the picture just the poignant boost it needs...
Messrs. Green & Lewis are well aware that if they vanished simultaneously, they would take with them neither the ramified roots of Craft v. Industrial unionism nor their sundry satraps, jockeying for power. The byplay last week was important only because it. continued a notable revival of peace talk & thought...
With their attention distracted by Author de Montherlant's byplay, readers may not notice how shrewdly his characters are drawn. A libertine, indulgent, temperamental, Costals undertakes the amorous education of Solange with a patience that astonishes even himself. He raves about her legs, her eyes, her hair, her ears, her wrist watch, her vaccination marks, her manners and the fact that she does not read his novels, "When she blows her little nose," he exclaims, "it's always behind a newspaper (moderate in its views) so that I shan't see her do anything...
...rule they fizzle instead of firing. Howard Dietz's book is rather flat, both in incident and dialogue, but in ample compensation it does serve as a vehicle for some very pleasant songs, an actor and two actresses of considerable charm, handsome sets, and some amusing byplay...
Surgeon Erdmann got down to Dr. Brooks's liver. At that point in an operation on an ordinary patient Surgeon Erdmann habitually turns to his audience, explains his intent, waits for applause. Over Dr. Brooks there was no such dramatic byplay. The surgeon swiftly lanced the abscess. Pus spurted out. In his intensity Surgeon Erdmann cut his own finger twice. Then he and his surgical team of professors speedily cleaned up Dr. Brooks's abscess, inserted a rubber drain, closed the incision...