Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ohio. If popular ex-Governor Frank Lausche returns to the Executive Mansion, Republican Governor Tom Herbert will have only himself to blame. Practical John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche...
When she decided to build her new factory, she laid it out with some of her own shrewd ideas of how to eliminate waste motion (e.g., it has tilted tables down which workpieces slide from one worker to another without having to be carried). By such production-boosting devices she expects to step up her gross next year to $14 million (her net is Nellie's own secret...
...story contrasts the characters and careers of a detective and a crook, both born in poor New York Italian families. The detective (Victor Mature) is reasonably intelligent, persistent, brave and ill-paid. The criminal (Richard Conte) is shrewd, unregenerate, reckless, vain, easy with the money and the girls. Conceding that the crook is much the more obviously interesting character, the movie grants him the bulk of its attention. But that is all it grants him. Without ever quite getting mealymouthed, it builds up an honest and impressive case against...
...Todd is as shrewd as most people think, he can still save his box office. He has the elements of a money maker. He has the exciting dancing of Kathryn Lee. He has the songs of Jimmy McHugh which, if they remind you that you have heard them somewhere before, still prompt you to want to hear them again. That is saying a lot for modern show tunes. He has Irene Rich for the female lead. He has a million lovely girls and two million sponge rubber falsies. Most important, he has two weeks in Boston. In this time...
...guts, as said before, are the trimmings. These include two characters obviously patterned after Billy Rose and his wife Eleanor Holm. Sam Levene and Audrey Christie do a fine job of making these two into tough, witty, shrewd people, the kind Hart loves to harrass. Virginia Fields, who looks better than ever, portrays a shifty Lady in Lights who gurgles "darling" to almost everyone but her dull-witted Wall Street husband, obviously another pet peeve of Hart's. For only two major characters does the Hart show tenderness. One is the playwright in the plot, played earnestly and well...