Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Love & Duty. In Louisville, Mrs. Marie Spalding bawled out her husband, a policeman, who arrested her for disorderly conduct. In Shanghai, Miss Hu Shu-cheng spurned her policeman suitor, who got her jailed for a year as a Communist...
...produced brilliant and expensive new ballets. Most of the deficits had been made up by Director Lucia Chase (heiress of a carpet fortune), who also danced leading roles in the company. Her estimated loss so far: $2,000,000. Ballet Theatre would start up again perhaps next year, said Miss Chase, but only if someone else came forward with a little money...
...things are sorrier than fantasy that does not jell. This doesn't. William Powell has had long experience in playing a flustered man of distinction, but this time he plays it as if it were one experience too many. Miss Blyth is about as ichthyoid as you can get and still interest more forward-looking vertebrates. During the long buildup to her first appearance there seems to be some hope for the movie; but once they have a mermaid on their hands, the people who made the picture haven't even a Peabody's idea what...
...screen, Funt merely adds a hidden camera and proceeds as before. He pretends to be a hideously amateurish barber or an irreducibly bureaucratic clerk ("You got that filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
...Rogers was a World War I doughboy on furlough when he bumped into Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in a French provincial hotel. Miss Toklas ("Pussy," Miss Stein called her) was wearing "a sort of uniform," consisting of a cloak and a skirt with vast baggy pockets; she moved at a springy canter. Miss Stein ("Lovey," Miss Toklas called her) also wore a sort of uniform, modeled apparently on the Greek Evzones but including sandals; she walked like a determined elephant. Both ladies wore hats like helmets. They named young Rogers "Kiddy...