Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South Pacific gets a magnificently effective production. Joshua Logan has staged and stepped up the proceedings with nimble skill, while the Jo Mielziner sets never jam the flow. As the little knucklehead, Mary Martin gives the performance of her career. She merges a gift for comedy with a delightful personality; she sings well, and turns out ballads even better. As the planter, Metropolitan Opera Basso Pinza proves himself an excellent Broadway performer. He has, beyond that, the kind of voice that show business is lucky enough to acquire once or twice in a generation. The whole supporting cast is good...
...minimum the hard demands put upon an audience by a Greek tragedy; the number of mythological allusions and images is small and the diction is tuned for modern ears. It's a pity that the writer, who has a good sense of dramatic values, has no lyrical gift. Mr. Jeffers has had theater greatness thrust upon him by Miss Anderson...
...declared Hearstling Handwriting Expert Muriel Stafford, after a look at the crisp Acheson script. "It is interesting," she pointed out, "that both General Marshall and Dean Acheson write a firm, left-slanted writing. Both are reserved men, clear, swift thinkers, and strong willed . . . Dean Acheson has the added gift of intuition, shown in his quickly written, disconnected writing ... Low capitals indicate a modest man . . . he is also extremely literary. This is a cultured writing in the finest sense of the word...
...Some months found us without enough money for the $30 rent, but we didn't lose any money--we didn't have any to lose," says Mrs. Mary Mohere, manager of the gift store. "We had to depend on generous friends to wash the windows and scrub the floors...
Because of the lack of space at the new building, however, a corps of volunteers had to transport food from a kitchen half a mile away Only after the Committee could raise money for extra room could the food shop begin to match the gift store in popularity...