Word: enthusiasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commander Macgowan, who was slated to cox the Navy crew, couldn't be there and the helm was taken by Turner, who had never coxed before, but managed to keep the boat on a straight course and turn in a creditable record. Long on enthusiasm, but short on condition and training, the N.T.S. crew was pretty well done in at the end of the half mile, even though they had been forced to keep the stroke fairly...
...aging exuberance of Vic Faust outshadow anything that the non-burlesque-minded members of the cast are capable of, which may be a clue to the general weakness of the show. A little bit of the Old Howard touch might have served to get some of that excess enthusiasm over to the audience. As it stands, there's a free-for-all battle between the actors and the ticket-buyers. Either way, the customer loses...
...Long on enthusiasm but short on condition, the N. T. S. crew is made up of seasoned crew men who, with more practice, may give the Crimson a merry race. Stroked by Bill Drissler, who rowed on the Cornell crew in 1935, the boat numbers among its ranks men who have rowed on Harvard, Navy, American International, and Cornell crews...
...dumb." The really juicy part, though, is Gaylord Mason's. He's Norman, the guiding genius of the mad household of actors who will--and do--resort to anything to get the attention of a theatrical producer. He plays the part up to the hilt, with enough vigor and enthusiasm to keep the whole thing going by himself...
Teacher Disney has not yet been welcomed as a colleague by professional pedagogues. Three years ago one of his greatest admirers, Harvard's Professor Robert D. Feild (author of The Art of Walt Disney), was dropped by Harvard's conservative art department because of too much enthusiasm for modern art, particularly Disney's. But Disney is by all odds the most successful cinema educator to date. Says FORTUNE: "Previous educational movies, with such rare exceptions as the MARCH OF TIME and Pare Lorentz films, have been dull as dishwater and often embarrassingly coy in the bargain. Disney...