Word: performer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joan Woodbury) and their boss (John Calvert) to get money out of two soldiers (Jimmy Lloyd, Robert Scott). The charm of the picture is in the redolent staging of scenes in the dance hall, at a jam session, a crap game; and in the fact that all these characters perform as unaffectedly as if they had no idea there was a camera around-or even that movie characters must be either utterly good or utterly evil. In its wholly unpretentious way, this is easily the most sympathetic picture yet made about soldiers on the town...
Among other things, war is a craft, and G.I. Joe does an excellent job of explaining it. Its action includes some of the most lucid pictures ever filmed of infantrymen at work. The actors, many of them combat veterans, perform their jobs with competence and beautiful attention to detail. One sequence, in which two soldiers, covering and acting as decoys for each other, outwit three German snipers in a church belfry, is as satisfying as a cleanly executed triple play...
...year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well...
Professor Hansen discusses both the institutional elements of the Murray Bill and its economic purposes. "The Murray Bill," he says, "emphasizes ways and means of increasing the volume of private capital outlays. It recognizes that there are important services needed under modern conditions which only government can perform, which cannot be undertaken by private means...
...SERVICE NEWS could perform a real service if it set about encouraging the student body to take advantage of the coaching and facilities offered here at Harvard, instead of taking pride in witty fault-finding. Give us a break, and at the same time encourage athletics; Harvard needs them. A member of the team. Howie Foster...