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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Simmons to have nothing but movie training before this role? She would doubtless have the same freshness and the same talent for heartfelt speech (if not her useful knowledge of movie acting), if she had never heard of movies. But she has had as her constant mentors J. Arthur Rank's excellent dramatic coach, exActress Molly Terraine, and one of the best imaginable teachers, Laurence Olivier...
Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: ¶ The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas...
...talk over the last few months had been loud, adroit, and full of discomfiture to the government. It was also skillfully aimed at the Labor Party gallery. At last month's Party conference at Scarborough, Dalton's "Keep Left" speeches had been well-received by rank & file delegates ; they elected him to the Party Executive by a whopping vote. For Laborites who thought that Cripps was going ahead too slowly with the Socialist revolution (or that the government was showing too much concern for middle-class and professional support in the 1950 elections), Dalton was intoning the oldtime...
...size of the procession in the morning is still not definite--but with the inclusion of October and February graduates, it should rank well above the previous record march...
...member of the Kuomintang, he is generally considered an independent. Most of his life has been passed in the relative obscurity of the Geological Institute and on university teaching staffs. He entered government service in 1935 at Chiang Kai-shek's repeated requests, rose rapidly to ministerial rank. Before becoming Premier his job was that of Minister of Economic Affairs...