Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time has come, the director said, to think of better movies and things. So he did. He combined an excellent, even superb, story with a top notch cast and set out to produce a masterpiece which was billed as "The Philadelphia Story." He had seen Katherine Hepburn in the stage production of the play and decided, correctly too, that she was the ultimate as far as the part of Tracy Lord was concerned. Next he hied himself over to the masculine department of the studio, picking out Gary Grant and Jimmy Stewart for the supporting male roles. Thus far this...
...congratulations to TIME for its splendid, superb "Slaughter on Fifth Avenue" (Jan. 27). Thoroughly complete, delicately descriptive of a terrible tragedy, "tops" in word phrasing, it is a perfect portrayal of a singular sorrow in a warped world...
...have hit the bottom in that course. Luckily, the film is no term paper on Bloody Kansas, but an interesting and frequently exciting study of a Man with an Idea, John Brown. Raymond Massey, lately of Illinois, resurrects the fire-eating disciple of Jehovah and the Boston Abolitionists with superb artistry. And, as is usual with any experienced actor, Mr. Massey pilfers the picture from such amiable hams as Errol Flynn and Ronald Regan. Of course, John Brown is the villain of the piece and yet Abolition is a Good Thing. The gyrations that the script goes through to prove...
...difference between the indescribable hash E. Power Biggs makes of a Bach Chorale Prelude, and the superb gusto and vigor he puts into a Handel organ concerto, is to me one of the seven wonders. In the latest in the Victor series of Handel organ concertos, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Concerto, Album M733 he plays most delightfully on the Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone...
...Crimson had it all over the visitors in the two lightweight events. Wiry Jim Redmon, of the 121-pound class sailed into his first intercollegiate opponent of the year and pinned him in four and a half minutes. 128-pound Tod Schoenberg showed superb mat technique by downing his man in just over a minute...