Word: shrewdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Syria and its national liberation movement was much on the French mind last week. For under the ambitious leadership of shrewd President Shukri Bey Kuwatly, the Syrian parliament had voted funds and conscription for a Syrian national army. One fruit of General de Gaulle's visit to Moscow was believed to have been a Russian guarantee of France's colonial empire. Syria's military stirrings gave France a queasy feeling under her colonial belt; they might endanger the whole French position in the Middle East...
...imaginatively jivey musical numbers, this ingenuous little tale might easily, and happily, have been pretty well lost. That it is not lost is due in part to plausible and polished performances by Bowman and Hayworth, but mostly to British-born Producer Victor Saville's excellent direction. With a shrewd use of every sentimental prop that greasepaint and a war-torn London can provide, Saville has told his story simply, with a minimum of gush, and considerable authenticity...
This half-gorgeous, half-garrulous fantasy does not take easily to the stage, and is seldom performed. But last week, under the shrewd direction of Margaret Webster, who has pumped new life into Hamlet, Macbeth, many another Shakespeare play, The Tempest, proved surprisingly good theater. Its length cut, its storyline sharpened, its comedy underscored, it held to gether and moved along, became a more mettlesome play than the one Shakespeare wrote...
...Hands, New Face. Bald, shrewd Martin Huberth, onetime Manhattan real-estate dealer, has managed Hearst's eastern land holdings for 40 years. Dapper Dick Berlin, previously in charge only of Hearst magazines, is another old hand, who first won the friendship of Mrs. Hearst in World War I, when he was a young Naval reservist and she was doing something for the boys. The new face in the triumvirate is ruddy-cheeked, fastidious. North Carolina-born, Yale-trained Banker Hanes, 52, who joined Hearst in 1940. Wall-Streeter Hanes once defined himself as a "financial doctor...
...Francisco Chronicle's hard-hitting sport editor, Bill Leiser, landed a shrewd blow last week in defense of wartime pro sport. In his column, "As Bill Leiser Sees It," he wrote...