Word: joyful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...since learned not to insist on comfortable surroundings. Any distress at last week's off-Broadway opening of August Strindberg's Easter was caused by the play and the production, not by the theater. To come off at all, the palely symbolic, poorly translated Easter-which creates joy out of the woe of a bedeviled Swedish family in the period from Maundy Thursday to Easter-needs not only sensitive acting but a unified acting style. Instead, Producer-Director David Ross came up with little good acting and no acting style...
Learn to Control. The school grew out of the personal struggles of its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, who was born with a bone ailment that made it impossible for her to walk. An operation eventually cured her, but in her first joy at being able to run around like other children, she tripped over a fence and suffered an emotional trauma that prevented her speaking. Only after years of instruction from her mother did she learn to talk again and finish her education. By that time, she was determined to devote her life to other unfortunates...
...Young Lochinvar. In Bad Kreuznach, West Germany, after he stole a 50-ton M-47 tank and chugged for a seven-mile joy ride, Private Walter F. Brown got a two-year prison sentence despite his explanation that he took the tank to show his girl friend that he could drive...
...those skeptics who really think that movies aren't like life, the Keith Memorial is showing Bundle of Joy, which features Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher in their first co-starring picture. There is humor, too, with Adolph Menjou as Daddy Fisher...
Bundle of Joy (RKO Radio). The original of this movie, released in 1939, was called Bachelor Mother, a title bearing such intimations of immorality that the studio had to fight the censors to retain it. The movie was a spoof of bastardy. But with Ginger Rogers and David Niven starred in it and with Hollywood's boy wonder of the day, 26-year-old Garson Kanin, directing, the spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood...