Word: polish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arriving with all the polish accumulated during its long Manhattan run, "Anna Lucasta" combines enough punch and discriminate pacing to present a mundane theme in an engrossing manner. With an all-Negro cast that has added the experience of a long run to its initial first-night spark, this comedy-drama successfully handles the story of a prostitute who for the first time is loved for what she is, not for what she represents; and does this by neither patronizing the subject nor burlesquing it. The story is realistic without being objectionable, and includes just enough finesse to slip...
High & Dry. In Tulsa, a woman driver put out her hand, tied up traffic for three blocks, eventually explained to a cop: "Oh, I'm not going to turn; I'm just drying my nail polish...
During the war he went to Europe with the OSS. He admits he doesn't know "a damn thing about the Polish Government." But he knows about democracy. "Democracy survives on wellfed people and on good business," he booms...
...hard to be sure, for that matter, just where all 500 organizations fitted in. Veterans' associations, labor unions, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Y.M.C.A. were on hand. There were representatives of the National Thespian Society, the American Association of Teachers of French, the Polish National Catholic Church of America, the D.A.R. and the American Guild of Organists. The cultural unity of the human race was the farthest objective anybody actually mentioned, but the American Society of Mammalogists, perhaps looking for new species' to consolidate, showed...
When an almost oppressively sophisticated writer turns out so highfalutin a play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand...