Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aldrich & Richard Myers, in association with Brian Doherty) is the Dublin Gate Theater's third Broadway production and first wholly inside job. Written by one of the Gate's two founders and star performers, the play isn't really much good but it is often exceedingly pleasant. Half fantasy and half satire, in its dawdling as well as its dreaming it is altogether Irish...
Three Daring Daughters (M-G-M). Producer Joe Pasternak discovered long ago that charming young people, musical celebrities and double jiggers of relaxed good humor and good will are likely to shake up into a very pleasant musical. He has poured out the mixture, with happy results, quite a number of times (100 Men and a Girl, Two Girls and a Sailor, etc.). But the recipe doesn't always work ( Three Daring Daughters...
Miss MacDonald's voice sounds richer than ever; Senor Iturbi plays much better boogie than he used to; and a couple of the children are very nice. It should have made a pleasant, easy show, but it seems hardly worth all the trouble...
...Lover's Return (French). Louis Jouvet, a ballet master, takes vengeance on some incisively sketched provincial burghers. Intelligent trash, nicely done; pleasant ballet background; an eye-filling dancer named Ludmila Tcherina...
Mirabeau is strong, not altogether pleasant, reading. Mirabeau's true greatness emerges in his courage and vitality, and in the tenacity with which he held to his ideal of justice through the terrific injustices of his own life and age. Despite the memorable phrases of the Rights of Man, and his orations, readers will be most moved by his little forlorn admissions of the sickness of the age in which he lived, a sickness he recognized dimly that he shared. He seems not to have been driven by a clear vision of a better order; he had simply, like...