Word: contented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...content to wait for spring, or even a semblance of spring. Crew Coach Tom Bolles launched his five heavyweight eights onto the icy Charles yesterday afternoon in the face of driving snow flurries...
With personable implausibility, winsome Cinemactress Allyson now protests: "I never wanted to be an actress. I wanted to be a doctor." But after such pictures as Music for Millions, Two Girls and a Sailor, Her Highness and the Bellboy, and now Sailor, she seems reasonably content with her fate, her high place in fan-magazine popularity polls, her standing as a kind of female counterpart of Van Johnson, and her salary (about $750 a week). Her next picture: Two Sisters from Boston, as a sister to Singer Kathryn Grayson. Her modest ambition: to act like Margaret Sullavan...
Conductor Jones was content to follow the precedent of Felix Mendelssohn, who in 1829 started a Bach revival in Germany. The Mass was sung with even more voices than the Bethlehem choir used last week. Said Ifor Jones: "Mendelssohn was an oratorio writer [with] large choruses and super-duper performances...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 8 sides; Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) in F (New York City Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Pittsburgh's Reiner is generally content to play Beethoven the way Beethoven wrote it; Stokowski, who still feels a call to improve on the composer, lushes up the Pastoral. Orchestral performance of both: good...
Open City was recently shown to members of the Vatican State Secretariat, who said they appreciated its spiritual content. It was begun shortly after the Nazis scurried out of Rome, photographed with a minimum of studio equipment on five-year-old film bought at fancy prices in the black market. The cast was half amateur, half professional. Despite these difficulties, Open City is a graphic, bitter, harrowing document and a denial of 21 years of Mussolini...