Word: pert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after next May 31 the Russians would still enjoy "joint use" of the Port Arthur base with their good friends of Red China. In any event, the Russians had the use of a second ice-free port at Dairen, a handy 25 miles up the Liao Tung peninsula from Pert Arthur. But the agreements let Peking spread the impression that it had been able to force the Russians to withdraw...
Except for her nationality, Edith Maria Binde had seemed at first to be a perfectly normal student at the University of Illinois. A pert, handsome brunette of 19, she graduated from a typical German secondary school in Lichterfelde, entered Illinois on a foreign-student scholarship last September. But by last week, the university had decided that Edith was not really normal at all: she was nothing less than a female version of the fabulous Mr. Belvedere...
Garden of Evil (20th Century-Fox) is a western for farsighted people. The foreground-in which four hombres (Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell, Victor Manuel Mendoza) trail off after a pert little gold digger (Susan Hayward) in search of gold or whatever else may be in them thar hills-is hardly worth looking at. But the background, the Mexican landscape, is one of the grandest the world has to show, and the gates of the CinemaScope camera are flung wide to show...
...talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before and after." At week's end Pola, looking pert and still glamorous, was photographed after she landed in New York for a two-week visit with anonymous old friends...
...next. The flow is swept along, too, by the apt and fetching musical score of Antonio Vivaldi, Italian master of the age in which the scene is set. The lively songs of the mounte banks are cribbed from some old com media dell' arte notes, except for a pert little tarantella by Musical Director Gino Marinuzzi. Color and sound - and indeed most of the elements of the film - are matched and inbraided with loving care...