Word: keepeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dick Harlow has announced his starting line for tomorrow's game, but he continues to keep his four starting backfield nominees a deep, dark secret. Weather conditions may be one reason for Crimson uncertainly in the ball-carrying spots, buy more probably the Crimson mentor wants to keep the Elis worried right up until game-time before selecting his starters from a group of six first-class backs...
...Lahr's opinion the things that keep a long run musical from bogging down are changes of interpretation and ad libbing. Already he has ad libbed several lines which have been incorporated into the script. For instance, in that classic scene in the men's room of a small night club, where he is coaching his successor as washroom attendant and telling him the chance of promotion, he ad libbed, "Why, if you click in this joint, you may work up to some four-sinker like the 'Mayfair...
...loves directing, though he belittles it as "a lot of over-rated goings-on." His ability to keep things moving and get every last chuckle out of a funny line is based on pounding away tirelessly at details, and on an infallible ear for the rhythm of conversation. He will rehearse a play for 15 minutes without looking at the stage, only listening to the dialogue. Suddenly he will call a halt, take out one word which interrupts the flow. No actor has ever managed to ad-lib even a syllable into his lines without Kaufman's spotting...
...arrival of the biggest buyers the U. S. has seen in a generation there are relatively few war orders to date whose actual existence can be confirmed. World War II is a war of caution and just as France and Britain got together and agreed to correlate purchases to keep from bidding against each other, so they have been cautious in other ways. Mindful that this time purchases in the U. S. are for cash, which has to be laid on the barrel-head, they are shopping carefully. For the same reason Britain is buying everything...
Russian foreign policy rests entirely in Stalin's hands, who will take that course which is most likely to keep himself in power, Professor Karpovich said...