Word: conducted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the Metropolitan Opera made his life complete. It signed Reiner to conduct this fall, thereby greatly bolstering its lackluster staff of conductors...
...Saxon Charm (Universal-International) is an adaptation of the novel by Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman about the strange character and conduct of a Broadway producer. Eric Busch (John Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists...
...pretty thoroughly taken in by Mr. Saxon's charm. Since Novelist Wakeman is not exactly a dazzling writer himself, he has not created a very interesting one; nor is John Payne equipped by nature to play an author with much plausibility. Since Saxon's conduct, 90% of the time, is about as uncharming as possible, the problem of selling him to an audience ought to be tougher than it turns...
...editorial Freeman told Richmonders: "In spite of the wastefulness of the New Deal, the arrogance of some of his [F.D.R.'s] lieutenants, the incompetence of others and the un-Americanism of still others, we believe his preparation for the war and his conduct of it represent solid credit balances . . . This greatest of wars has been in every essential respect much the best conducted of them all. Believe it or not, Roosevelt has outdone every wartime President...
...Freeman, and consequently the reader too, is impressed by a strength of character, an almost fierce sense of justice and principles of conduct rare in Washington's time or any other: "The foundations of that code were not love and mercy, faith and sacrifice, but honesty and duty, truth and justice, justice exact and inclusive, justice that never for an instant overlooked his own interests...