Word: slapdash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slapdash London revue called Strike a New Note recently passed its sooth performance thanks to a comic that few Londoners had ever seen a year ago. Today, at 40, raven-haired, bulbous-nosed Sid Field is saluted as perhaps England's finest pantomimist since Charlie Chaplin sailed for the U.S. Fame came late to Field because for twelve years an irksome contract tethered him to the provinces, locked him out of London. It took a lawsuit...
This treatment works only on a soldier whose ego is still pretty much in command of his cosmos. About 60% of the selected cases on which the Army uses it are improved enough to return to battle. Colonel Grinker admits the necessity of this slapdash technique, but he thinks that speed is the only thing in its favor. He says it is hard to tell whether the returned troops are effective in combat, that the end result in many cases of repressed anxiety will be a mental problem after the war, if not before...
...White, onetime English schoolmaster. The Sword in the Stone (1938), a tale of young Arthur's education in the hands of the wizard Merlyn, was so brightly fanciful that Walt Disney purchased it to succeed Snow White, Pinocchio, etc. The Witch in the Wood (1939) was a more slapdash account of Arthur's early kingship. This week appears the best of the series: The Ill-Made Knight, a whimsical chronicle of Arthur's further attempts to found civilization by channeling Might, via the Round Table, into the cause of Right. The Round Table cleaned up black-hearted...
...whose title was changed from I Married a Nazi, owes its impact to a simple and startling idea. The idea is to show Hitler's Germany not through the eyes of a German or a Jew, but of the screen's most Typical American Girl, smart, slapdash, big-eyed Joan Bennett. When Miss Bennett, for all the world like the heroine of a Gary Grant comedy, slithers up a Berlin street in a low-slung roadster and comes upon a gang of Storm Troopers beating a few old Czechs, the smash is terrific...