Word: nods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showoff that won't even make use of a curtain. Purporting to be a rehearsal of a play in the early stages of production, it deliberately wallows in confusion, tries to thrive on disaster, and insists on being bosom friends with an audience that barely vouchsafes it a nod. Playwright-Director-Actor-Master of Ceremonies Crabtree takes potshots at latecomers while offering pointers on the play; the stage manager struggles with the prompt book while actors add inserts to injury; the lights blow a fuse; an actress throws...
Barcelona-born, black-eyed Victoria got her first nod of approval from University of Barcelona professors. She was the daughter of a campus caretaker, and to the delight of the students and the annoyance of the teachers, her childish singing could be heard in the classrooms. But the professors recognized her talent, urged her to study at Barcelona's Conservatorio del Liceo. She did, for three years, then quit to work by herself. In 1947, assured by admirers that she could walk away with the first prize in Geneva's International Contest, she tried, and won the unanimous...
...Korea-a nod from Moscow could have stopped the Red attack at any time...
...Warden doesn't start today at right half, the nod will go to Wylie. A junior who played some varsity ball last year, Wylie is a capable runner and blocker, but, like Isenberg and Warden, he will need to pick up good downfield blocking to break away...
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Warner) sends Hollywood's aging (46) tough guy James Cagney off on another gay whirl of crime. Cast as the same strutting, wisecracking thug he played so often in the '30s (now, in a fleeting nod to movie progress, labeled a paranoiac), Cagney kills six men, breaks out of a chain gang, pulls off a couple of daring heists, blackmails a bribe-taking cop (Ward Bond) and viciously swats a blonde moll (Barbara Payton) with a rolled-up towel...