Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Duffy tore up the list of prison stool pigeons, and stripped convict politicians of their power. To the horror of his staff, he strolled, unarmed, into the prison yard and chatted with convicts. To their infinite surprise, he strolled out again. But, unlike many a reformer, he was too wise to confuse fairness with softness. Duffy kept...
...Ronde. A worldly-wise French comedy of bedroom manners in old Vienna, based on Schnitzler's Reigen; with Anton Walbrook, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon (TIME...
...behavior, the satiric touches, social nuances, domestic details that Marquand is master of. For all three acts, Point of No Return is a generally deft production: pleasant staging, neat Jo Mielziner sets, enjoyable acting by Henry Fonda as Charles, by Leora Dana, John Cromwell, Frank Conroy, Robert Ross. Theater-wise, much of the play couldn't be smoother...
...theater-wise and drama-foolish. Necessarily lacking the fullness of the book, it much less excusably lacks the bite. The second act is an overlong flashback that reduces Charles's whole past to a magazine-fiction romance without appreciably illuminating the present. The third act is just an exercise in suspense over whether Charles will be made vice president...
...Good Night. In Milford, Mass., not a creature was stirring in the Red Shutter Restaurant, except someone who journeyed to its Nativity scene, made off with a candle, two angels, a pair of camels, two Wise...