Word: callowness
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Regarded as a pretty callow opus when presented in the U. S.. Thunder Rock was playing last week to sellout houses, at the large Globe Theatre. Nerve-frayed British playgoers, sick of revues and musical comedies, found a tonic in Ardrey's proposition that times are never so tough as to be hopeless. Sample of the dialogue that stirs the British: "Stick to your guns, for God's sake, stick to your guns! Men live among you today who will be the leaders you despair of finding!" Better played by Michael Redgrave in London than...
...Ernie" Bevin was a callow carter's apprentice at Bristol when famed Ben Tillett, hero of the Dockers' Strike of 1889-greatest of the 19 Century in Britain-found him and took him to London to help run his. dock and transport workers' union, formed in 1911. Rough-tongued old Ben manned the hustings, but Ernie's organizing, policy-planning and negotiating made the Transport and General Workers' Union Britain's biggest, and Ernest Bevin as its tsar the most potent individual outside the Government at the start of World...
...deals with his last day alive. An old man, for years unofficially sainted, he is ceaselessly tortured and tempted still. On that day, through the eyes of a child he tries to raise from the dead, Satan stares at him. On the evening of that day a priest, a callow doctor and a distinguished visitor try to find him. The visitor is a dead ringer for the archfoe of all that M. Bernanos holds valuable: Anatole France. By the bloodstains of self-mortification on the priest's bedroom wall, by the silent stone odors of his church, Anatole himself...
...beginnings of wisdom. Just as important to the meaning of Seventeen are the watchful restraint and troubled tact with which Willie's parents (Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker) try to make him work out of his dilemma on his own. Result: by deftly making youth's callow crisis also a crisis of adult intelligence, Director Louis King and Producer Stuart Walker (who produced the 1918 stage version of Seventeen) have made one of the few recent Hollywood remakes worth remaking...
...jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...