Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber representatives first approached a Pennsylvania radiator company in 1933 with studies showing how it could make money in Los Angeles. Every year thereafter they came around to elaborate on their inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot: last month ground was broken for an $8,000,000 radiator manufacturing plant that will employ 1,500 people...
...Ideal Husband (London Film; 20th Century-Fox) is not one of Oscar Wilde's best plays, but it has enough edge and style to make the run of plays look oafish. Alexander Korda's screen production of it is short of ideal, but it is distinctly something to see and hear...
...husband are more conveniently unlovable than an honest imitation of life would allow, and they are so tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people are so extraordinarily nasty, the good people look more mawkish than they deserve to. And as is so often the case in sentimental fiction, the teariness goes hand in hand with some excruciating whimsy. (Sample: two housemaids, the Misses Jinks, one tall, one short, are called High...
Treasure of Sierra Madre. Walter Huston, Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt look for gold and find trouble in Director John Huston's brilliant adventure fable (TIME...
...chief characteristic of this artificially theatrical approach to the work yesterday was Mr. Goldovsky's evident insistence that everyone do something while singing. All the staging seemed forced. People would pace about the stage, look at the audience and toward the rear of the stage, and whisper in other characters' cars. To keep the action moving, some seenes were played in front of the curtain while sets were changed behind-with cramped action and annoying off-stage noises the result. All the singers were given to exaggerated postures-one felt like shouting, "Don't be so deucedly condescending!" Costumes were...