Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instantly, the Assembly's spoilers reacted. They argued that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...
...Star Is Born. Judy Garland makes a stunning comeback in a Technicolored musical version of 1937's Academy Award winner; with James Mason, Jack Carson (TIME...
Back in the hey-day of the New Deal, it was almost the height of fashion for bright young Harvard men to go trooping off to Washington upon graduation. But today the traffic is no longer all one-way. In an educational version of "massive retaliation," steadily increasing numbers of career government servants are converging on Cambridge every year, most of them to pursue studies of one kind or another at the Littauer School of Public Administration...
Porter is not the only disappointment of the evening. George S. Kaufman and wife have failed to do for Ninotchka what Sam Spewack and wife did for Taming of the Shrew. In the Kaufmans' version, propaganda and comedy are blended in the worst proportions. Near final curtain, when they decide that perhaps the audience is convinced that Paris is preferable to Siberia, the authors throw in a few old anti-anti-Communist jokes and call it a night...
Yvonne Adair, the brunette in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, plays an American actress filming a musical version of War and Peace in Paris. In her best song, "Josephine," she is given a little material assistance by Porter; he had descried her in the first act with "There's A Hollywood That's Good," resulting in a number several cuts under the lowliest College musical filler. Had the authors done their share, Miss Adair could stop the show and Miss Neff could keep it going...