Word: knowingness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Homer Lea was a hunchback who wanted to be a hero. Before he was 18 he had mastered every detail of every battle Napoleon ever fought. While studying law at Leland Stanford University he made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the...
Sunny River (book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; music by Sigmund Romberg; produced by Max Gordon) attempts to revive big-scale, full-throated operetta without knowing how. It seizes on the cobwebs of the oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering...
Making her Broadway debut, Judith Evelyn plays the terrified wife brilliantly, knowing when to show restraint, when not to. And Vincent Price is never a mere stage villain, Leo G. Carroll never a mere stage detective.
Preparing cadets from all over the nation to play their part in the national defense effort, the air station sends 200 students a month into active duty in the Naval flying force. When they leave the Jacksonville base upon the completion of the training course, the new pilots are familiar...
Usually he shaved in leftover lukewarm tea, but this morning, knowing he might not shave again for a fortnight, he had allowed himself the luxury of heating water to shave.