Word: creditably
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although the individual performances in this production are memorable, especially those of Miss Dunbar and Mr. Hill, the large credit for its overall excellence belongs with the director. He gives the play unity, motion, and best of all, the sense so often lost that the actors really are speaking to each other--the essence of drama...
AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., fast moving into credit-card business, has picked up the 45,000-member Gourmet Guest Club, is dickering to get Esquire Club's 100,000 members...
...eyebal's, Fox needed ready cash to run the Post. Up to then, the Post had been a strident critic of Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Paul A. Dever, running for reelection. Dever arranged for his friend Bernard Goldfine to extend Fox about $400,000 in credit-and the Post suddenly became one of Dever's loudest backers. Similarly, Fox had pledged the Post to support Massachusetts' Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and abruptly switched position. His story now is that after discussions with others, including Neanderthal Republican Publisher Basil Brewer of New Bedford, Mass., he decided...
...Post loans to Fox, later appeared as the angel behind a syndicate trying to buy Fox out of the staggering Post. Fox, certainly at least as much through his own behavior and his growing reputation as a fabulous deadbeat as through anything Goldfine might have done, found credit doors slammed in his face. The Post folded on Oct. 4, 1956. In his struggles in the net of finances, John Fox has had federal tax liens slapped on his properties, been hauled through Boston's Poor Debtors' Court, been arrested for failure to meet court judgments against...
...better send telegrams to several million moviegoers, because otherwise they are not going to get the message. But there are compensations. In scene after scene, thanks perhaps principally to Director John Cromwell, the audience looks into the screen as through a window into life. And Cromwell deserves much credit for the acting. As the mother, Betty Lou Holland is painfully good. And Actress Stanley triumphs over heavy odds. She is a full-bodied woman who shows every one of her 33 years, and never for an instant looks anything like a 16-year-old girl or a sensuous cinemama...