Word: repeat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Repeat as often as necessary...
...trumpeter's pianist sidekick, Hoagy Carmichael gives one of his effortless performances. Actor Douglas gives plenty of vitality to the central role, but he is called on to repeat a good deal of what he did in Champion; one scene, in which he bangs a trumpet to pieces and breaks into sobs, is almost a remake of the climax of his earlier film. Having discovered what Actor Douglas does best, Hollywood apparently is determined to work him to death...
Dear Wife (Paramount). The movie sequel is an old Hollywood custom designed to repeat a success by imitating it. More often, as with this pale wraith of 1947's Dear Ruth, it succeeds only in running a good thing into the ground. With the same principals playing for farce in the same suburban setting, Dear Wife sadly lacks a script to measure up to the original...
...Violinist Kreisler could smile at the memory of a gentle hoax: for years he programmed his own compositions-the Praeludium and Allegro, Menuet, Concerto in C Major-as "transcriptions" of the works of old masters. He thought it "tactless to repeat my name endlessly on the programs...
...above diversions from the Paul Report individually are of little consequence, but taken together they illustrate what seems to be a completely bungled election. Moreover, compliance with the adopted procedure on some of the points, such as the last two, might easily have changed the whole outcome. In repeat and amplify my question. Why weren't the appointments of the Student Council Member in Charge of Class Affairs and the chairman of the 1950 Permanent Class Committee election committee made according to the prescribed forms? And why did the election committee, headed by those men who were appointed, fail...