Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WILLARD GIBBS - Muriel Rukeyser-Doubleday, Doran...
...According to the "phase rule," detailed in Poetess Muriel Rukyser's recent biography of the late, great 19th-Century U.S. physicist Willard Gibbs...
...Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi: the Man in His Letters...
Pride of the Yankees is also a very important picture for 24-year-old Muriel Teresa Wright. It is her first big role. If moviegoers like her in it, she may become cinemadom's foremost dramatic actress. If they don't, she can 1) try again; 2) remain what she is: one of the best young dramatic actresses Hollywood has turned up in many a talent hunt...
...oldtime musical instead of the charm. Its lush, long-winded plot, its stilted dialogue, its leering humor have everybody's nostalgia in full retreat before the evening is half over. A tale of New Orleans around 1810, Sunny River tells of the rivalry between a cafe singer (Muriel Angelus) and a society belle (Helen Claire) for a dashing young Creole lawyer (Bob Laurence), runs the gamut of shoddy ruses, noble renunciations, comic duels, gloomy drunks, motherly madams, then smugly pats itself on the back for its unhappy ending...