Word: frighted
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...show had been arranged with the greatest caution for fear the King might get stage fright, relapse into a stutter...
...means inspirational, the story has a twist that is as surprising as it is unlikely. Anything can happen in the movies and often does, Jack Haley, whose singing is good if you don't mind his face, is a small time vaudeville performer who has "mike fright" at his first audition. The inevitable happy ending finds him firmly established at the top in radio...
Readers who fear political parables need not take fright; the stories in Twilight of a World are not messengers of any super-human faith. Not simply nostalgic ex-Austrians but men of good will in any land will understand and welcome them at sight. Some of them...
...first-rate entertainment is a tribute to the finesse with which Director Henry Koster handled Adele Comandini's script and to the acting of an expert and experienced supporting cast. That the heroine, instead of seeming an obnoxious little prig more terrifying than Boris Karloff in a fright-wig, possesses instead the appeal of a talented and attractive child is due principally to the actress who has now replaced Karloff as Universal's outstanding attraction, 14-year-old Deanna Durbin...
...egoist like his fellow reporter-biographers, Mr. Miller likes to go on solitary two-day hikes "as a useful mental astringent," still has to give himself a fight-talk to ward off journalistic stage fright before interviewing famed figures. Less blatant in his self-revelations than Negley Farson, he shows less literary skill than Walter Duranty, less philosophical originality than Vincent Sheean. He gropes for "some system ... of bringing the capacities of production and the requirements of consumption together so that the whole world can enjoy the advantages made available by the machine." That this solution will be realized...