Word: rose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise to the top of their bents. At sparring they are perfectly matched, at witty detail brilliantly mated. If added tribute goes to Actress Leighton, it is for a certain marvelously sustained manner: she is all hoity-toity airiness and verve. Though the rest of the production, barring George Rose's lively Dogberry, is much of a piece with the rest of the play, both are well worth putting up with for the sake of the stars...
...nation's 18 million teen-agers began heading back to high school and college last week, there was a new look: the neatnik had replaced the beatnik. Out were dungarees, sloppy slacks, baggy sweaters, etc. Reflecting the back-to-school buying surge, department-store sales across the nation rose 20% over a year ago. Said Teen-Age Research Expert Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their...
...entered Phillips Academy in Andover, probably since his grandfather had founded it. His academic training consisted of memorizing hymns, Greek and Latin grammar, and attending sermons. Although Quincy described the Puritan restrictions as "wearisome and irksome," he learned them well; he remained a teetotaler and habitually rose...
...George Rose's booming and Falstaffian Dogberry was definitive. Hurd Hatfield was perfectly cast as the villainous Don John, and Micheal MacLiammoir was a laudable Don Pedro. In several of the other roles, especially female, the performers were not up to Gielgud's demands...
...love-making of his own. After Bogie slips into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace of the film...