Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Insecure Guilt. Peace was not and never would be a serene and beautiful woman watching children at play. Peace at best was a squinting sentinel or a farmer building a fence or a man walking the hills with an urgent message which might quell or check or soften hatred. Peace at its worst was the smug illusion of safety-or else it was a panic flight, more terrible than war, away from...
...cost of hauling scenery off to the warehouse, then hauling it back again two weeks later and putting it up, says Billy, is close to $4,000. "Why, then, wouldn't it be smart to present two operas a week instead of five or six? ... Why not play Carmen the first half of the week and, let's say, Der Rosenkavalier the second half? And ditto the rest of the operas in next season's repertory" . . . And when the season is over, "why not open the Opera House ... to operettas such as Porgy and Bess, Show Boat...
...Loves of Carmen (Columbia] gives red-haired Rita Hayworth a chance to play one of fiction's most durable hussies. To give Rita's millions of fans their money's worth, Columbia has spared nothing, not even the horses: the movie has splashy Technicolor, spicy love scenes, a talented cast, lavish sets, a stagecoach robbery, plain & fancy violence. It is only a well-dressed western with gypsy trimmings, but it is entertaining in an oldfashioned, simple-minded...
...theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery red makeup that would look fine on a Connecticut barn. On Technicolored actors it looks terrible...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor and others do some fine work in Director John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...