Word: skillfull
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mathilda Hills comes back on stage as the dreamy sister. Her beauty and skillful use of overstatement make her immensely appealing, while Sonia Grant, as the other sister ("I'm only easy to talk to because I talk about movies") is about the best comedienne in Boston.
The really remarkable thing about Night People is the skillful visual patter with which Johnson, working like a shrewd real-estate salesman, hurries the audience past the gaps and imperfections in his property and closes the sale before they quite know what they have bought. For no particular reason, doors...
On many such half-seen visions of Mars is built the theory of its "canals," presumably built by intelligent beings. Skillful and honorable observers have seen a network of fine, straight lines crisscrossing the planet. Others, just as competent, have seen nothing of the sort, and the canal system drawn...
The Holly and the Ivy (London Films; Pacemaker), based on a recent Wynyard Browne hit play in London, has been called by one reviewer "the most deeply moving picture experience of this year"; by another: "earnest, sentimental, agreeably trumped-up, and resolved in a roseate flush." The contradictory opinions trace...
The seven women in the chorus do not fall victim to the pitfalls so common in choral speaking: faulty timing and a lack of harmony. Their precision is achieved mainly through the skillful direction of Theodore Field. He seldom allows the seven to speak as a whole, preferring instead to...