Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gootenberg said that HLU has asked United World Films whether they would release "Odd Man Out," contracted for last fall. The University Theater management, has protested the showings as competition to both RKO and United World...
Coach Butch Jordan and an odd assortment of varsity wrestlers entrain for Columbia at 5 p.m. this afternoon, on their way to what should be their third straight success of the season. The match is scheduled for 3 p.m. tomorrow on the University Hall mats...
...Barry, the translator, has chosen to retain certain odd twists in the dialogue which tend to make the audience conscious of the translation. Now, is the good? In "Red Gloves," for example, the absence of such twists and literally-translated idiomatic expressions made the play more direct and forceful, the hand of the middle-man not being there. However, a play with a hero such as this Pierre Renault is probably not creditable in the land of Washington and the Cherry Tree. Such people can flourish in foreign soils, and well. But not here. So Mr. Barry has left...
According to the tentative spring program, the film series will present Room Service, Odd Man Out, and The Informer. The University Theater management, Gootenberg pointed out, feels these inovies will cut down its audiences. It has no objection, however, to foreign films like Shoe Shine and Ivan the Terrible...
...stale, wearisome slapstick sermon on the text "You, Too, Can Be Happy, Though Rich." The example is a tabloid reporter (Tyrone Power) who writes scurrilous stories about a chain-store heiress (Gene Tierney). Disguised as a playboy-author, he pursues her to Sun Valley, and she develops an odd urge to share more of her time-and maybe her millions-with him. To most reporters, this might seem like very sweet vengeance, if you can get it; to Reporter Power, the whole idea is repugnant...