Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many of the songs and sketches have a slight English music-hall tang, but only occasionally do they seem a little wheezy. There are two excellent parodies in "It's About Time." "I and the King" aims some expert barbs at the more ludicrous elements in the current Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play. Miss Gingold, wearing a red wig, burlesques Gertrude Lawrence as Anna in two songs. Two lines from these songs might be quoted: "It's a beautiful morning in Bangkok--B-A-N-G-K--O K!" and "People will say we are us!" The other parody...
This week the Navy announced that Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin will relieve Vice Admiral Arthur D. Struble as commander of Seventh Fleet, operating off Korea and Formosa. Admiral Struble, an amphibious-warfare expert who led the Inchon invasion, will return to the U.S. to take over First Fleet, Martin's old command...
...Fulmer Green, gently disengaged himself from beauteous Randy McHugh ("Please . . . you're making it hard for both of us"), was sweetly patient with his incurably ill wife Elise, and, to the accompaniment of vibrant organ "strains," calmed a gun-toting hysteric. Supervisor Max Wylie, who has had an expert hand in such sudsy classics as Portia Faces Life, asked listeners to be patient, promised that soon "we're going to do adult soap opera for the first time and get away with...
...film lacks the pace and style of a good Broadway show (or of MGM's own On the Town). Its songs & dances serve merely as interludes in the kind of plot that cinemagoers know too well. But within these tired limits, the movie offers some amusing comedy, expert staging of individual numbers, bright lyrics by Alan Jay (Brigadoon) Lerner and, best of all, Fred Astaire who, at 51, has never danced with greater skill or ingenuity...
...Skiman, of course, is no mere skier. He holds that any fool can learn to slide down an icy hill on a pair of slats. True Skimanship consists of appearing as an expert without actually knowing how to ski. This appearance aids the Skiman's technique in such accompanying winter sports as snow-bunnying and bird-dogging, at which he is generally fairly adroit anyway...