Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might have on Salvatore Giuliano, Sicily's most renowned present-day bandit, who has achieved an international reputation for, among other overt acts, robbing the rich for the benefit of the poor. Miss Mulville explained: "We are having a mock trial of the case in our seventh grade at school, and I am the district attorney...
...Academy's 104 years, six other Negroes had tried before, but none had made the grade.-Some foundered in scholastic squalls, but others succumbed to Coventry-the silent treatment...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
...Were Strangers. Director John Huston's fling at a Cuban revolution; a better-than-average melodrama, but grade B Huston, with John Garfield and Jennifer Jones (TIME...
...movies had done their share to kill off vaudeville, but now the exhumed variety show might be just what worried movie exhibitors needed. If the Palace's new "8 Acts 8" (featured on a bill with a cinematic weak sister called Canadian Pacific) could make the grade at the box office, the RKO chain stood ready to throw vaudeville into its movie houses around the U.S., and other chains might follow suit...