Word: skill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrayed. Technical superiority, shown particularly in the handling of minor characters, has produced an authentic background; Akim Tamiroff, as a virile plug-ugly, is outstanding. To be sure, as much cannot be said for Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, who are pleasant but unnecessary; nevertheless, by virtue of the skill with which a worthwhile tlicme has been handled, a convincing and certainly entertaining motion picture has been produced...
Tall, curly-haired John Mason Brown (Post) is, at 38, the youngest of the newspaper critics. Probably the ablest all-round of the lot, he combines journalistic dash ("Most Hamlets look like the original interior decorator") with analytical skill. With Anderson, he has the highest critical boiling point; brought in a plausible minority report on Abe Lincoln in Illinois. He lectures far & wide, has led Variety's boxscore for best-guessing hits and flops five times in the last nine years...
...treats of a writer of comedies who wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
...mind. If so, he over-emphasized the flexibility. Or perhaps, because of the strain of producing the picture, he has unconsciously let too much of the self-assured Producer filter into his portrayal of the lazy and dissolute Ted. Yet despite the defects of Laughton's acting, his skill in the creation of a distinguished production show that he has kept his place as one of the top-notch men in present-day moviedom...
...those who wish to engage in a sport with a minimum of practice and training. Those who take part in House Athletics play for the game's sake and enjoy it. Varsity Athletics, on the other hand, in any sport, are for those who desire to acquire skill through a great deal of practice, training, and personal effort. That there are these two schools of Athletic thought in the college, cannot be denied. To mix them would be ruinous. Cyrns C. Marden...