Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chaney displaying his acid-distorted profile, "Phantom of the Opera" has had its face lifted, this time the gruesome details being definitely in a minor role. The new technicolor production's efforts are centered on the operatic background and on a cleverly handled romance, rather than depending on sheer horror to draw, the flocks to the box-office. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, thanks to well proportioned bits of music, color, comedy, horror, and yes, even romance...
...older types that were continued stiU had their effective uses. But more important than the fact that they were still better than enemy equipment was another consideration which airmen have tentatively labeled "the principle of numbers." This is the principle that the sheer weight of numbers in aircraft gives the holder an advantage over the enemy even if his aircraft are inferior...
...time for Bataan. Lieut. Davidson (Miss Colbert) does her best to liquidate her love for a Medical Corps Lieutenant (George Reeves) in the name of duty. She fails. Nurse O'Doul (Miss Goddard), a handsome 110-lb. of salt-of-the-earth with an incurable penchant for sheer black night gowns, kids around tenderly with a pleas ant ex-footballing Marine named Kansas (Newcomer Sonny Tufts). Nurse D'Arcy (Miss Lake), having seen her fiance killed at Pearl Harbor, is a personnel problem (see cut), interested in no men except Japanese, whom she is interested strictly in killing...
...Hagen's Desdemona is the third highlight of the play. Her acting as an innocent ingenue bears out the angelic descriptions of her earlier in the play. And when she sings the song her mother taught her before the death scene, the slight, hoarse voice carries a sheer emotionalism that cries out against the injustice of her fate...
...Japs, you forget that she's the babe with the "peekaboo bang" and get a little respect for the American female. About Paulette Goddard: well, she's good too, except now it's a sure bet that Hollywood can't put out a single picture without at least one sheer black nightie...