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...generally good production, Lucile Watson is amusing as the ball's aristocratic wheelchaired hostess, Denholm Elliott smooth and agile as both twin brothers, and Oscar Karlweis suavely despondent as an unwilling millionaire. But Ring Round the Moon seems frequently garrulous and increasingly tenuous and a little too complacently impromptu. The whole effect is rather like finding a filmy handkerchief with a ravishing scent and searching in vain for its owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays In Manhattan, Dec. 4, 1950 | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

...impromptu demonstration for the Kirkland yearbook began at 2 p.m. and lasted until bucket-wielding fire-fighters took over the field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Screnaders Boost Deacon Testament Yearbook | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

Twelve members of the Brown band were unceremoniously booed out of the Radcliffe quadrangle last night after a short, impromptu serenade. After the cool reception, the ragged little band retreated playing "Eternal Father Strong to Save...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tootling Bears Booed | 11/18/1950 | See Source »

...entertain the tremendous crowd during parttime Leverett House will put on an impromptu riot...

Author: By Dyed M. Foulard, | Title: Crime Gridders Will Be Anti-Red | 10/14/1950 | See Source »

...luxury liner's departure for a 30-day pleasure cruise of the Mediterranean. When the convoy weighed anchor in Japan, wives & children waved goodbye from the shore and a brass band cheerily blared Anchors' Aweigh. On the fantail of the fleet's flagship, an impromptu clay pigeon shoot was organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: In Earnest | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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