Word: skilfull
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The dramatic values are irony, sudden reversal, and skilful but not subtle symbolism. An example of each will suffice. The mother, a middle-aged actress, but still extremely attractive; superficial and selfish, but capable of deep love, continues to play lotto after her son, sensitive, talented and aimless, has killed...
All That Glitters (by John Barag-wanath and Kenneth Simpson; produced by George Abbott). News that George Abbott is directing a play interests Broadway more than who wrote it, or who acts in it. Abbott is noted for discovering merit in scripts rejected by other producers, is able by skilful...
Scion of a family that has always managed to find more than one way to skin a political cat, Wisconsin's Progressive young Governor Philip Fox La Follette last year tried a new way of getting after his State's privately owned utility companies. Since Wisconsin's...
The National Broadcasting Co. prides itself on never letting the Columbia Broadcasting System get ahead of it. In the opinion of many a serious student of U. S. drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish'...
Professor Friedrich Schonemann of the University of Berlin, onetime instructor at Harvard, tried to quiet the Nazi howling. He declared: "I think it is rather foolish and at the same time dangerous on the part of a certain section of the German press to indulge in wholesale criticism of the...