Word: manner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While games, songs, magicians, and refreshments are a feature of every Brooks House splurge, Christmas means presents, and the committee has a distinctive manner of handling this, too. Every guest will head homeward after the party with not, one, but two gifts from Santa Claus '49--one a badly needed article of clothing, specified by the parents, and the other a useless toy, which the child is expected, if he runs true to form, to value much more highly...
...Ruth's old-style direction, in the manner of a fast silent comedy, and Ruth Roman's homegirl charm as the love interest, help Berle make Always Leave Them Laughing a warm, unpretentiously funny comedy...
...mild-seeming man with a crew cut and a boyishly diffident manner, Cadmus had turned to abstract themes. His new show centered around seven two-foot-high panels representing nothing less than the Seven Deadly Sins...
...scenes show the same sky or lighting. The camera, often threading through Stark's career like a fond mamma looking for her child in a crowd, turns up all kinds of unpredictable and realistic touches. Occasionally, Director Rossen plunges spiritedly into a scene as though, in the Rossellini manner, he were making up the script as he went along...
...Liebman has unfortunately relegated humor, whenever there is any, to a poor second place. In only one skit does the audience get a chance to painful manner...