Word: minors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...left to guess at the details of the chase which brought them to grief-an omission which many a weary wartime traveler found less baffling than the minor mystery contained in one sentence of the FBI report: "Gimpel and Colepaugh stayed at the best hotels...
...music by David Diamond and eloquent lighting by Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...
...vibrations are right. The rarefied atmosphere exhilarates instead of suffocating her. She is possessed not only of Dionysiac energy but also of an all but demoniac appetite for expending it. All of each day, from 9 to 7, she pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron...
Here Come the Waves (Paramount), a musical salute to the women of the Navy, is a minor but pleasant enough vehicle for reliable Bing Crosby and rambunctious Betty Hutton. Mr. Crosby, in a heroic departure from character, plays a crooner whose life is made miserable by the squeals and faints of the bobbysock babies. Miss Hutton plays the double role of a girl who is old enough to know better but doesn't, and her twin sister who does. As the former she is, as usual, endearingly stentorian; as the latter she is startlingly gentle and demure. Nice tunes...
...than a year ago, when Chinese bandits who were hijacking U.S. trucks were found to be armed with smuggled U.S. weapons. Under Colonel Harry Cooper, of Baltimore, a former U.S. secret service operator, Army investigators have cleared up 87 major cases (all involving profits over $5,000) and 213 minor ones, have virtually stamped out big-scale smuggling by U.S. personnel...