Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...director Andrew McCullough, an experienced technician who must have been below his best for the current production. One piece of staging in particular was painful: the hiding at the back of the set of the frighteningly pathetic scene in which June comforts her son Johnny after he sees the ghost of the man he has betrayed...
Nowadays, Atheist Togliatti firmly clutches the palm branch. Recently, in the Italian Assembly, one of his Christian Democrat opponents ended a bombastic speech with an appeal to the Blessed Virgin; the next speaker windily invoked the Holy Ghost. Communist Togliatti did not reply with dialectical materialism; instead, his steady voice crackled out the First Commandment-"lo sono il Signore Dio tuo. . . ." His fellow legislators cheered...
...Holy Ghost or an ambassador from heaven to the world of the dead...
...going to America, "Technical Landing," by Ivan Morris, may convey shades of Kafka to some, but as a character study the story stands well by itself. Perhaps the fact that the planes only come in when they're in trouble and the suggestion that the boy hasn't the ghost of a chance of going to America have divine implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur E. Cooper, is a light narrative that certainly has no implications. Its tone, though a trifle forced, is sustained right through...
...interpretation of a difficult role; Henry Edwards keeps up a distinctly superior standard as the unsympathetic Claudius; and Miles Mallcson, as Polonius, steals every scene in which he appears. Other lesser roles are well filled, too, with only Philip Foster as Horatio and Nelson Leigh as the Ghost declining toward the mediocre...