Word: raves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood may shout about a movie and New York critics rave about it-but Main Street can still give it a cold shoulder. Theater owners generally listen to Main Street, where most of their paying customers live. Before booking a movie, many a cautious exhibitor scans the pages of Boxoffice and Motion Picture Herald for the thumbnail reviews by exhibitors who have already shown the picture...
Since October, he has played in 56 U.S. cities and gotten rave notices in all of them for his Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Last week, his powerful playing of the Tchaikovsky concerto had a usually unemotional Houston subscription audience shattering tradition and applauding after the first movement. At the end, he was recalled five times in the biggest ovation of the season...
...Back. Mikolajczyk tried to do business with Communists of high & low degree, and of all shades of temperament. Every experience boiled down to a doublecross. Most interesting doublecrosser was Stalin himself, not the bland, genial Stalin of the photographs, but an unpredictable Georgian who could rave one minute and cajole the next, but who never took his eye off the ball-control of Poland...
From some impressed French laborers, U.S. commanders got a tip that there was gold stored in the mine. All the Germans in Merkers who had anything to do with the mine were rounded up, and one of them was the assistant director of the Berlin museums, Dr. Paul Rave. He told the Americans about the paintings, and accompanied the first Americans, led by Colonel Russell, to visit the mine...
...very often that a Shakespeare revival gets as high praise as Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic's "Antony and Cleopatra." Reading the superlatives leaves anyone acquainted with Shakespeare or with acting standards in a quandary after he sees the play: how can he reconcile the rave reviews with the obvious and fatal shortcomings of the current production...