Word: smartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rosalinda was a feather in the cap of Manhattan's youthful New Opera Company. Since its first appearance last year under the lavish sponsorship of Helen Huntington Astor Hull, the New Opera Company has proved that opera, sung by U.S. singers, can be smart, well-staged and easy on the eye as well as the ear. Magnificently staged and costumed, with a George Balanchine ballet that swirled and foamed like champagne, Rosalinda was all of these things...
...same, vivacity that won him acclaim in "Amphitryon 38," Mr. Lunt is agile and amusing. He brightens up the stage with his flourishes and his tricks, spinning back and forth, "like a top." Miss Fontanne is demure and lovely as the romantic wife of a prosaic husband. Jack Smart excels as the dull West Indian Babbitt with the tyrannical past of a pirate...
...cinesatire on Henri Landru, the French Bluebeard. Wendell Willkie, back home in Rushville (see p. 20), eagerly looked forward to his first haircut since Cairo, 6,500 miles, six weeks back. From Vichy came an eye-catching picture of dapper Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican chargé d'affaires, his smart new wife, Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, her hat -a full-fashioned, high-riding model reminiscent of a quilted, candy-stuffed, $5 valentine-the first Paris style news in months...
...down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were no cookie pushers: James O'Connor, 36, serving one year to life for robbery, who escaped twice before; William Stewart, 43, Matthew Nelson, 40, and St. Clair Mclnerney, 30, serving life terms as habitual criminals; Edward Darlak, 33, serving 199 years for murder...
...backhanded blast at the slicker-dicker sort of U.S. truck builder, ODT's Bill Cumming, chief of its Vehicle Maintenance Section, snorted that after World War II smart fleet operators will demand a general sacrifice of "looks" and "streamlining" to efficiency, will insist on trucks with cabs "which a full-sized driver can enter easily-in which he can sit up straight, look out the windshield, get his knees under the steering wheel and operate the controls...