Word: enlivenment
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...rocket ball"-a buna-S core instead of last year's apathetic balata-may enliven hitting. A Cleveland Indian who last season batted .222 tried the ball at the Lafayette, Ind. training camp last week, promptly hit a home run. "If the cover was any tighter," reported Manager Lou Boudreau, "it would be a golf ball...
...UMBRELLA -Frances Crane- J. B, Lippincott ($2). Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police lieutenant enliven a tightly plotted, brightly told tale, with an unexpected finish...
Dixie (Paramount) is a dull, none-too-faithful account of the career of Dan Emmett, author of Dixie, and one of the four Original Virginia Minstrels of 1843. Even the personality of Bing Crosby as Emmett, plus the great historic theme song, plus Technicolor, cannot enliven the picture's turgid progress through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy...
Demand. Movies are popular wherever they can be shown; performances are often so crowded that some men sit behind the screen to watch the picture in reverse. Records played over loudspeakers enliven some camps; in New Guinea, moreover, this music has become a favorite thrill to the boongs, fuzzy-haired native boys who work at advanced air strips. Live shows are favorites everywhere. New Guinea now has a show attraction called Hellzapapuan, while stars like Martha Raye and Carole Landis have performed in advanced zones in North Africa...
...working overtime, the Lunts manage to scrape off some Behrman rust. They also enliven the evening with a series of vaudeville acts. Actor Lunt dances, does magician's tricks, fakes tightrope walking. Actress Fontanne goes into a trance, does half a striptease. Two other characters indulge in a crap game. In view of all this, perhaps a decent script would be an intrusion...