Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dramatic Club, in its present production, has hit a new peak in its career. The show was outstanding for its smooth and forceful direction by L. J. Profit, S. R. Sheppard, and J. B. McMeehan, but the Club's choice of a play gave them superb raw material with which to work. The young English poets, Auden and Isherwood, have tried to portray "the universal tragedy of man in a man-made world." By a simple and polyphonic prose, verse of varied complexity, a tragic chorus, lyric refrain and dream device, they have welded a series of bizarre climaxes into...
Florian (M. G. M.). Lovers of fine horses may or may not enjoy seeing Robert Young somewhat gingerly ride a superb Lipizzan stallion (Florian) through this filming of an Austrian Black Beauty story by Felix Salten. They can scarcely fail to admire the stallion, who, with Charles Coburn (a sage village doctor), gives the best performance in an otherwise one-horse film...
...Juliet, Pelléas and Mélisande-she shared honors with Bernhardt, Duse, Ellen Terry. She knew everybody in England, from Oscar Wilde to Edward VII. She was fearless and formidable, a woman who shared her love letters with the world, who had atrocious manners but a superb air, and a wit that Shaw himself might envy...
...believes firmly that the international smart set of those years was "even more important than its members thought, which is saying a great deal." In dealing with the private lives of such public persons as Queen Mary, the late Isadora Duncan, the late Edith Wharton, Gabrielle Chanel, she is superb...
...that I have much expectation of seeing it touched in the future. I, who am certainly the only collector in the country with every single copy of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings (including Big Butter and Egg Man and Irish Black Bottom, on both of which Louis takes superb vocals), can assure you that this is strictly hep information...