Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan, before the Radio Executives Club, Lilienthal spoke his mind about the difficulties of his second...
...west coast nostalgia merchants responsible for this picture had only one thing in mind--an audience with perfect vision. Grade school mentality is no of consequence and a speaking knowledge of English isn't necessary, but the color-blind fan is sunk without a hope. "The Swordsman" is shot full of more color than a Tartan plaid, and its plot is every bit as checkered...
...peculiar arrangement of incidents is of little help. For some reason, he has invented an annoying little stunt of running together the last sentence of an episode in 1892 with the first few words in a flashback sequence. Perhaps this ties the two together in the reader's mind, but the device becomes irritatingly cute after the first dozen or so uses. More bothersome is his scheme of omitting a handful of climatic events of the story, and saving them for a sort of catch-all crescendo...
...even colossal, but there are times when it activates a grudging smile, and once or twice even a warm chuckle. Levant's cynicism is two-dimensional: in his role and for his role. This, by all accounts, is a good thing, taking the mind off the pins and needles of a sleeping leg. Dan Dailey carries the burden of the show, and proves his worth as a song and dance man, but he falls short of equaling the Chevalier kind of one-man show. And that is what is most wrong with the picture...
...giving Lincoln-Mercury room to grow, he hoped to give more competition to General Motors and Chrysler (whose manufacturing units are all autonomous) in their medium and high price lines. Young Henry also had a man in mind for the job of bossing Lincoln-Mercury. Last week his brother, Benson, 28, was named a Ford Motor Co. vice president and put in charge of the new division. It was Benson's first major job in the company...