Word: carly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
Born. To Benson Ford, 30, vice president of the Ford Motor Co., head of the Lincoln-Mercury Division, and Edith Mc-Naughton Ford, 29, daughter of a onetime Cadillac Motor Car official: their first child, a son; in Detroit. Name: Benson Jr. Weight...
...cameramen have carefully perceived things which Hollywood has only squinted at. They have caught the quick flash of sunlight off the front fender of a car. They have watched a pent-up ball of twine roll excitedly along a curbstone. They have found the texture of a masonry wall, and the quiet beauty of a row of tenements slanting downhill into the afternoon...
This disunity can be funny just as most slapstick comedy can be funny. Ivy Films have borrowed the Keystone Cop chase and the little circus car which spits out a steady stream of big men. It also means that the audience cannot sit back and chew popcorn and know what is coming off. They may even have to puzzle things out with Ivy Film's program. But this reviewer feels there is plenty of room for motion pictures which people have to sit up and watch...
...accompaniment to "A Touch's" nervous action at a stacatto 32-frames to the second; it is a raucous, brash, nervous score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep-grazing and grand-entrance-of-the-U.S.-Cavalry background score as the Ivy picture's subtle photography is to the antiseptic reproduction of a Hollywood sound stage...