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...rehearsal, he is temperamental: his moods vary from the fire-&-ice meticulosity of Toscanini to the feverish, flop-haired semaphoring and exuberance of a college cheerleader. Says he: "I'm ashamed of myself after every rehearsal. I think you can only inspire a group when you have their respect, and they only respect dignity-but their slowness sometimes disgusts me and I forget myself...
...best list; there were also some unusually good tries, and some well-made minor pictures. The French Zero De Conduite, a weird, anarchic comedy about schoolboys, was made 14 years ago by the late, inspired Jean Vigo. First shown in the U.S. last summer, it was a box-office flop. But it was one of the most original movies ever made. Dudley Nichols' desire to make a great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electro) was regrettable. John Ford's The Fugitive...
Producers have been eagerly batting her on the head since 1930, when she scored a personal hit in a flop called Debonair. After her first big London success, The Wind and the Rain (1933), she married a globe-trotting London Timesman, Peter Fleming, and began (as Coward overstates it) to "have children with monotonous regularity" (she has three...
...finally she got out of balance and went flip, flop, flip, SOCKO ! When she balanced herself again she was on a new axis, the old North and South Poles were at the equator and a lot of the old tropical country around the new poles. That sort of explains Noah's flood, too," said Bill...
...King & Queen to a 66-year-old miner's wife, who bussed him after his visit to a Yorkshire coal mine. At parties and receptions at Prince's Gate, he had the happy faculty of greeting each guest as though the affair had been a complete flop until the latest arrival. British Laborites were frankly delighted to have a man who was in tune with Washington economic thinking and could speak with authority for the official...