Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole film is produced with a couple of million and a flourish, the script lays it on with a shovel, the music is superb, the pace is gusty, and the whole thing is swell stuff...
...lose the conviction that it is only by supreme and superb exertions, unwearied and indomitable, that we shall save our souls alive. No one can predict or even imagine how this terrible war against German and Nazi aggression will run its course...
When Army met Harvard on the turf of Soldiers Field last Saturday, it was mediocre versus mediocre with few lessons learned by either team. But when Army met Harvard in the opposing cheering sections, it was superb versus soporific, and the lessons are legion for Harvard. If the quality of the teams had been in proportion to the quality of their respective cheering support, "Jawn" would have suffered a gridiron catastrophe rivaling Old Eli's debacle of the previous week. If the yelling Cadets had been absent, Soldiers Field wouldn't have been as noisy as a thoroughly average Student...
...addition to Ethel's native ability, there are the superb antics of a sailor trio from the Idaho, Arthur Treacher's poker-faced buttling, and the inhuman jitterbug energy of Betty Hutton to keep the show at a lively pace. Costuming and scenery are done in the best Panamanian manner by Raoul DuBois, and the book of Fields and DeSylva is good musical comedy stock. Added up, this should be the proper formula for another Broadway hit, but in its embryonic stages the show does not yet live up to its promise. "Panama Hattie" still gives the impression of dragging...
Brian Donlevy and Akim Tamiroff deserve honorary memberships in Tammany Hall for their superb performances. Preston Sturgis, author and director, ranks with Judge Seabury as a tiger-killer. But perhaps it would be better to say that while the good judge did the actual killing, Mr. Sturgis has written a magnificent epitaph...