Word: joys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians like America's Voice? Reported New York's World-Telegram in a memorable headline: RUSSIANS RESTRAIN JOY OVER U.S. BROADCAST. Listeners who were interviewed said that they liked the music, found that the text did "not sound American." But the Voice of America (which has a long way to travel via an insufficient relay station in Munich) was completely inaudible on all but the very best Russian radio sets, which are owned by the very best Communists...
...them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other two are his own). Says she: "He's my pride and joy. He has everything. He has bulk, a beautiful physique, strength, grace, control, the highest ideals, brains, an ear for music...
...With joy and grief...
...joy in acting Shakespeare," the English actor explained, "is in getting away from yourself, and pretending to be somebody you're not. You must live in the part and orchestrate it.... At times one gets stumped. But God will come down and tell you, if you're lucky, once or twice a week, how to play...
...Odets earns enough as a movie plot-doctor to collect art (he owns some 200 canvases ranging from the French Impressionists to Georgia O'Keeffe), but he was looking for something to give him creative "self joy." His wife gave him a watercolor...