Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning hopefully to Warsaw after a brief rest in Washington, His Excellency Arthur Bliss Lane, U.S. Ambassador to Poland, found his stylish, three-story embassy still occupied by the eight Polish women and one man who have squatted there since last March. Under Polish law the squatters cannot be evicted until "satisfactory " accommodations have been found for them. So far they have turned down all proffers. Meanwhile Ambassador and Mrs. Lane have been forced to set up diplomatic shop in a two-room suite in the drab Polonia, once a third-rate commercial hotel...
...Crystal. Because he can never find his way in the big cinemansions, "idiotic labyrinth of premieres, first runs," etc., Grierson prefers his neighborhood Crystal. ". . . By the time a film gets to the Crystal, the spit & polish have gone, the confidence trick of presentation and ballyhoo is an old damp squib of months ago, and Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds, and the Hoot Gibsons, they all come even at last on the billboards. They have to talk across the hard floors and waste spaces of the peanuts to be good, with nothing to warm them except what is inside themselves, and that...
...Polish is what the Idler's effort lacked. That it was an amateur production could not be forgotten; but remembering that, the audience of "Have A Wife And Rule A Wife" was consistently delighted by music and foolery, wit and spectacle, and the general feeling that it was seeing an intelligent and tasteful effect by a well-directed college dramatic group--the first chance anyone has had in Cambridge this fall to indulge in such a feeling...
Preparations for the low board duel coming up against the Techmen are also looking bright coach Bernie Kelly reports, as the dives of Tommy Drohan acquire more polish daily...
Assigned the razor's-edge task of filming a story that was blatantly unsuitable for a big, star-spangled screen entertainment, Director Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, Claudia) did his thankless work with considerable taste and polish...