Word: faults
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well. It isn't all Bierman's fault. Some things he can't control. Last year, for instance, Clayton Tonnemaker and Leo Nomellini, two great defensive ball layers, walked into a sportswriter's office before the Purdue game and announced that the team was so annoyed at the coach's nasty remarks following a loss to Michigan that they were going to throw the Purdue game. Which they did, completely...
...lack of Crimson ground attack was not so much the fault of the offensive line, Jordan pointed out. He said that the line succeeded in opening holes on occasion, but that the ball carriers weren't fast enough to capitalize on them...
...whole thing, explained a railways official later on, was undoubtedly the fault of a literal-minded desk clerk. Back in pre-nationalization days, he said, the hotel had a ruling forbidding women to barge in off the streets for baths. Miss Ward's case, he thought, might fairly be called "an isolated incident [but] the one thing we were sure about all along was that she would get her bath, come what...
...fault decidedly does not lie in the acting. Denholm Elliott plays two parts well--twins of opposite temperament, living in Auvergne, France, in 1912. Frederic, who has all the humanity that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews...
...Ring Round the Moon" contains a number of brilliant scenes, but they are dragged down by uninspired writing in other places. It is hard to say whether the fault is Anouilh's or Fry's; perhaps, since the play is a London success, the "fault" is merely the difference of taste on this side of the Atlantic. Gilbert Miller has provided an uncommonly beautiful production. Georges Wakevitch's garden setting is handsome; Raymond Sovey's lighting makes it respond fully to the action. Raoul Dufy has contributed six "mood" curtains, and Francis Poulene has contemplated the play with background music...