Word: skillfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Falange is not all-powerful. The Army and the Church hate and fear it. The three are held in uneasy alliance by the consummate skill of that underestimated little dictator, Francisco Franco, and by the inept and purely verbal opposition of the democracies...
Producer Joan Harrison & associates have brought the story to the screen with considerable skill. Mr. Young and Miss Johnson are excellent as the ill-mated man & wife; Susan Hayward proficiently sells her special brand of sexiness; Miss Greer is a comely beginner. And many of the minor roles are more sharply drawn and cast than the leads. The jury, for instance, may be caricatured, but it is frightening to consider that such a group holds in its hands a life even so patently worthless as Mr. Young...
...being given a preview of what may turn out to be a musical revolution that has been brewing in New York for decades. Gian-Carlo Menotti, young Italian-born American composer, has written an opera, and unlike most of his fellow composers, he has had the right combination of skill and luck to get it produced-at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre along with his curtain-raiser, "The Telephone...
...proud of him," said Heinrich Himmler's granite-hard wife Margarete soon after he killed himself. Last week from Germany came reports that three times she had tried the same trick herself. But Margarete lacked Heinrich's skill. Wanted in Bavaria for trial as a Nazi, she was locked in a lunatic asylum at Bielefeld in the British zone, "a physical and moral wreck...
Icetime of 1948 (produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirtz) could almost be reviewed with a pair of ditto marks. The sixth of the Center Theater's chronically successful ice shows, it displays the same skill as the other five, the same lavishness, and, eventually, the same monotony. By now, obviously, a really new skating act is as hard to find as a new gambit at chess. But by cheating a little here & there, Icetime of 1948 has come up with some extra fun. Entering on skates, which he promptly kicks off, Joe Jackson Jr. goes into the hilarious...