Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Specific violations of the civil rights of American citizens will be the subject of a talk tonight by Miss Sylvia Slade, representative of the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union at a meeting of the Liberal Union scheduled for 7:30 o'clock at Phillips Brooks House. The topic is "Civil Liberties and Liberals...
Supposedly 'a parallel in tempo to John Gay's 'Beggar's Opera'" (it will be entitled "Beggar's Holiday" during the New York run), the play deals with the insouciant exploits of one Macheath, a lady-killing crook. During the course of the show, Mae holes up at Miss Jenny's maison de joie, marries Polly Peachum--the daughter of a humorously crooked politician, and beguiles the keys to his cell door from the jailer's daughter--all in order to avoid the inevitable ending which awaits him in the arms of the electric chair...
...pleasing are the splendid sets designed by Oliver Smith, the handsome interior of Miss Jenny's and the gaily colorful hobo-jungle especially adding to the beauty of the performance. The Duke Ellington music (book and lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of pleasing melodies. Among the better tunes are "Take Love Easy," "When I Walk With You," "Tomorrow Mountain," "Tooth and Claw," and "Girls Want A Hero." Latouche's lyrics are particularly amusing in "Ore From A gold Mine" and "I Want To Be Bad." The east gives a performance of mixed quality...
Claude Rains, probably the best character actor in movies, plays perfectly a South American link in an international carted. Miss Bergman, in reality an American spy, marries him in order to help Grant louse up the eartel's illegal workings, and the story of how she does it is complete with the usual sceret meetings, posionings, steny-faced villains with German accents, and uranium ore. But under Hitchcock-Heeht control it comes out fine and seems as if you had never seen it all before...
...Miss Lindfors, 25, wife of a Stockholm lawyer and mother of two small children, is already in California at work on Warner Bros.' Night unto Night (TIME, Sept. 30). Appassionato,, with English titles, is being released in the U.S. for the benefit of cinemaddicts who cannot wait to make comparisons...