Word: roped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor. The third story, by avoiding the obvious and the general in its script, is by far the best of the lot. Charles Boyer, as a tight-rope performer, has a role second only to Betty Field's female Scrooge, and Barbara Stanwyek gives him compotent support. The plot has its intriguing angle and even succeeds in making itself seem plausible...
...both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number on a milk-white stage battleship. But Red Skelton is the best...
...English in a ceaseless attempt to win him and his precious talents to their side). The plots and subplots that are interwoven with this main theme are weakened by a dreamy inconsequentiality; they seem to evaporate in the hot dry air like figures of Indian magic climbing the thin rope of the story and disappearing. For the spell of Indigo is hypnotic...
...Strenuous Life. In Ligonier, Pa., a pig bit a rope dangling from a barn, tugged, swung a scaffold out from under Painter John Graham. He pitched forward, grabbed a knothole, dropped his brush on the pig, which let go. This let the scaffold swing back under Graham, who settled aboard and relaxed...
Egyptians thought, they understood: the answer was yes, the U.S. was in the Middle East to stay. And they were ready to give Landis all the rope he needs, either to help them, or to hang himself-and U.S. interests with...