Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your friendly boatswain's mate. It's oh-nine-hundred and time to turn out. If you are hungry after your long sleep, there are coffee and sweet rolls waiting for you in the galley." Whereupon the ship's Dixieland band crashed into a rousing version of the reveille call...
Standing a well-proportioned six feet and looking something like a less rugged version of Cinemactor George Sanders, Sir William (knighted in 1951) is a gracious example of a sheltered English composer. Unlike that other popular British musician, Sir Thomas Beecham, Walton is no heady phrasemaker, either in speech or music. Although his music often sounds witty and facile, he writes slowly and for perfection...
...every Sauter-Finegan arrangement has either a palpable atmosphere or a clear story line or both, without ever tripping over its danceable rhythm. With the precision of a Marine parade and the grace of a lace handkerchief waving on the sidelines, the big band runs through a notably moist version of Rain, a playful Midnight Sleighride, a dreamy April in Paris. Jazz-wise listeners only had an occasional sense of too much novelty for its own sake...
...Wedding and The Cocktail Party. But Shirley's Lola had a haunting effect on playgoers that lasted beyond the fall of the final curtain. Shirley captured every acting award in sight (New York Drama Critics' Circle, Antoinette Perry, Newspaper Guild, Donaldson, Barter). In the movie version of Sheba, she broke all precedents by winning the coveted Academy Award Oscar on her very first Hollywood try. The judges at this year's Cannes International Film Festival wrapped it up neatly by simply calling Shirley "the world's best actress...
...Master of Ballantrae. Errol Flynn as the "wicked, wicked lad" in a rousing movie version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of the Scottish wars (TIME...