Word: firebrands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Firebrand of Florence (music by Kurt Weill; book by Edwin Justus Mayer & Ira Gershwin; produced by Max Gordon) sets to music Edwin Justus Mayer's 20-year-old comedy about Benvenuto Cellini, The Firebrand. Though the music itself proves an asset, it has to consort with a yarn that time has made paunchy and libretto-writing made puerile. The brawling mankiller, the dashing lady-killer, the impudent, artistic scapegallows Benvenuto (Earl Wrightson) becomes just another musicomedy swashbuckler; the plot and gags are such spinach that the whole thing turns out to be a musical poached eggs Florentine...
...developed his comedy style while playing The Duke in Edwin Justus Mayer's The Firebrand. The idea occurred to him during a long pause in a speakeasy conversation with the playwright. Morgan shattered it with the exclamation: "That silly -" "Who?" asked Mayer...
...Black Shirt. Successively a Conservative, Laborite and Socialist, Sir Oswald emerged in 1932 as the firebrand founder of the blackshirted British Union of Fascists. He broadcast his admiration for his friends Hitler and Mussolini, tried to put his country in the Axis orbit. His hoodlums attacked labor meetings, were attacked in turn. Wherever Sir Oswald went, a kind of hate rose that was strange to Britain...
Algiers Today. The political scene in Algiers now has an almost unbroken Gaullist façade, by virtue of purge and new personnel. In the strongly Gaullist Consultative Assembly, which convened in Algiers last fortnight, only a four-man Communist bloc including firebrand André Marty may be a source of dissent...
...Independents won eight seats, a gain of three. Most notable was the victory of James Matthew Dillon, firebrand from County Monaghan and ex-Fine Gael deputy leader. Among 354 candidates he was the only one who stood for cooperation with the United Nations. Electorated he: "If anyone here wants Hitler to win I don't want his vote...