Word: trios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...often highly entertaining; yet some of the sharpest stuff is purely visual. (Most wicked shot: the union hall, dominated by a gigantic photograph of The Leader, beneath which the platform officials, wearing their hats, recall the hardest of the old gangster pictures.) The Senator is a collaboration by a trio of expert funmakers: Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director George Kaufman and Scripter Charles MacArthur. There is also an unusually sassy musical score by Daniele Amfitheatrof...
...brief for free speech as forceful as Milton's Areopagitica, he drew and quartered the censors who dared fool with his plays. Later he was to praise the death's-head trio of totalitarianism: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin...
...Chicago had its noisiest night since the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre. It began when a blue-jawed ex-convict named Tom Daley marched into a South Side garage with two pals and killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...
...coach is still standing by his starting trio of Dave Key, Johnny Crocker, and Wally Sears, while captain Jack Lavalle continues in the nets. Standing out at defense and rated the most improved skater on the squad, Dick Greeley may pair with any of four partners in the Crimson's most uncertain position thus...
...Service." According to the screenplay, Groucho is a producer who has no backers, Chico an unidentified character who lives with Groucho and owns a large stuffed moose head, and Harpo an actor who plays a dead body in Groucho's epic. But as in all their films, the zany trio slip in and out of their plot roles as the occasion demands; so Groucho leers, Chico mugs, and Harpo ogles with accustomed vigor. After two reels, even the most astute give up trying to follow the incredibly involved machinations of the brothers Marx; in favor of just sitting back...