Word: grading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearty "Amen" to Professor Gore's comments on church music. Too long have many of us who are organists and choirmasters been appalled by the low grade of music in the services of the church...
Eddie Cantor finally made the grade, though he was bringing up the rear. Coming: another biographical cinema saga-this one about the life of Eddie Cantor...
Many a talented young U.S. singer longs to sing opera in Paris, but Edis de Philippe is the only one in this year's crop who had the bravura and the bravado to make the grade. Last week she became the first American to sing a major role in Paris' vast, rococo opera house since the war. It was Edis de Philippe's first Thaïs, and also her first flight into big-time opera...
...lavished 175,000 warning words on the clinical details of Jimmy's decline & fall. The publishers urge readers not to assume that The Story of Mrs. Murphy is simply "another" novel about a drunk. They are quite right. Distinguished by nothing except low-grade prose and high-grade intentions, it is probably the worst novel of its kind since the days of T. S. (Ten Nights in a Barroom) Arthur...
...thirst of movie audiences for a not-too-delicate combination of the two M's, marriage and murder, evidently has not yet been quenched. Bouncing back after "The Two Mrs. Carrolls," "Monsicur Verdoux," and a number of Grade B blood-curdlers, our ready producers have served up a Bluebeard in petticoats this time. Margaret Lockwood, sultry as an English actress could ever be, glides through the urbane intricacies and mad histrionics of "Bedelia" with murder in her heart and sex in "her soft white arms." Though the denouement is overlong and overplayed, the picture is saved by its tightly-constructed...