Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Included in the list of speakers are Pierre Emmanuel, famed French poet; Sydney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Albert Marre, director of the Battle Theatre; and Dr. Tara Chand, Indian Ambassador to Iran. Two well-known authors, Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor) and Gilbert Seldes, will also be among the eight other speakers. Elliott, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and George La Piana. John H. Morison Professor of Church History, will be the Harvard participants...
...Lampoon-written prose, Michael Arlen's essay How to Tell a Good Movie from a Bad Movie points humorously to the fallacies in film reviews based on truisms such as: "All English movies are good movies" or "All Technicolor movies are bad movies." Mistrusting these truisms, Arlen builds his piece around his personal way of picking pictures the advice of ten-year old cousin Henry "who knows when to walk...
...Grandson of William C. Whitney, Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, who built a $100 million fortune from trains, trams and tobacco. Whitney's father, Willard, was a Morgan partner who founded the New Republic, which Whitney's brother, Michael, still hopefully runs...
First the Story. Ealing has prospered, says Production Director Sir Michael Balcon, because it has resolutely avoided making "pale imitations of U.S. films." After World War II, several British companies began trying to outspend Hollywood. Ealing decided that its films (average cost: $420,000), if good enough, would make enough money at home, and perhaps find a small extra market in the U.S. Thinking first of the story and director, and last of a star, Balcon found that his pictures, made with no concession to American tastes, were more popular in the U.S. than British-made imitations of the Hollywood...
...Browning Version. Michael Redgrave as an unheroic English schoolteacher who turns hero in Terence Rattigan's Mr. Chips-in-reverse drama (TIME...