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Down to the last detail of posture and strut, Miss Hayes would have pleased even Shakespeare. Perhaps he might have thought her occasionally too gentle for some rougher moments, but then the audience, too, refused to roar in the old Elizabethan abandon at some of his slickest puns and sexy jokes. Malvolio, the perfect fop from curtain to curtain, is a much narrower part than Viola's. But every opportunity for satire, characterization and even, in spots, sincere drama, is exploited by Maurice Evans so completely that we are fortunate the part is in the hands of the "master...
...nothing had Newsman Phillips spent five days watching Nazi soldiers strut about a prison compound. He noticed the hiker's walk, turned his car around, halted, asked for the man's identification card. Said the fair-haired stranger in a heavy German accent: "I am on my way to Ottawa...
...said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild of Variety Artists to settle her troubles, was still turning up at the Casino, ready to strut her pigeons if the Casino would pay her salary and the poachers would be kinder to her stock...
...joined a Salvationist band at England's breezy Channel resort, Brighton. In 1911, Founder Booth sent Brigadier Burtenshaw to the U. S. to organize other Army bands. From behind his drum he has led bands ever since, has a healthy contempt for cockatoo drum majors who simply strut...
Even newer than this display of military morals was the Regular Army, 1940 model, which was about to strut its stuff for the U. S. people. Although they have spent some $2,600,000,000 on their Army since its renaissance began, they undoubtedly expected to hear more poor-mouth talk about a skeleton Army, starved since World War I, not pretending even to itself that it could fight a battle. What they actually will see and hear is that their Army is over the hill and out of the poor house...