Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slapstick is a theatrical narcotic, and both Wilder and director Tyrone Guthric almost inhale too much of the stuff. Having written the play expressly for Ruth Gordon in the role of Mrs. Levi, the author has given her too many lines that depend on dialect alone. Guthrie has compounded the peccadillo by letting Miss Gordon maintain her rasping voice too loud for too much of the time. The result, especially when Loring Smith is sharing the scene as the booming and gesticulating Vandergelder, is a shouting match that numbs the audience and detracts from those scenes wherein pandemonium reigns legitimately...
...films (Young Man with a Horn); by Ruth Meinardi, 41; after 19 years...
...were still dim. Those three victories came in their own cozy Ebbets Field, where the fences are in easy range for hitters. But the seventh series game, the payoff, was to be played in spacious Yankee Stadium, the vast Bronx lot out of which no hitter, not even Babe Ruth, ever drove a baseball...
...slightly tentative air about it, as if no one concerned ever quite believed the picture was going to be released. A musical remake of the 1942 movie (starring Rosalind Russell) that was, in turn, adapted from the 1940 Broadway play based on the humorous New Yorker stories by Ruth McKenney, the film must inevitably face comparison with Broadway's Wonderful Town, the hit musical (also starring Rosalind Russell) that derived from the same stories. The comparison is devastatingly in favor of Wonderful Town...
...could have been bigger. Gil McDougald could be forgiven for failing to tag third and score on Mantle's long fly to right. Casey could even overlook Billy Martin's first-inning bobble that had given the Sox their run. (No sooner had Billy received the Babe Ruth Award for his outstanding performance in the 1953 Series, when he let a routine grounder scoot through his legs.) The Indians might win in Boston, but the Yanks would still be right on their backs...