Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheme of "Tawny Pipit,"--a continual harping upon the "old English virtues" of fair play and hospitality, and an incessant probing to reveal that English life is good and decent and superior--epitomizes the disturbing introversion in British cinema. Begin with "In Which We Serve," and recall "Brief Encounter," "Blithe Spirit," "The Years Between," "Stairway to Heaven," or "I Know Where I'm Going," and the same preoccupation with British life and people, British mores and traits, and above all British virtues evidences itself. Even the fine film "The Captive Heart" about prisoners of war in Germany, is really...
...Liebert to Bingham" exulted the wizened savant, "he'll Mead no Finical help today. This will Sella million tickets. People are coming from Atkinson, Cleveland and Sande Fe to see a Operation teams play football...
...also in Palmer Stadium, to give the visitors a 6 to 4 victory; others will remember last fall's 13 to 12 triumph for the Crimson at Nassau, as Harlow's team withstood a frantic Tiger assault and Carl Libert's passes in the final minutes of play...
...outranking all these must be the 1942 game on Soldiers Field, Picture the complete hopelessness, from a Crimson point of view, of a two-point Princeton lead, loss than a minute to play, and the men form Nassau in possession of the ball, first down, on the Harvard 35 yard line...
Williams cited two factors as the chief obstacles in the way of drama in this country: the high cost of production, and what he termed the "Broadway bottleneck." He contrasted his newest play and its $100 thousand expenses to what a similar production would cost in Europe--$5 thousand...