Word: wising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...energy, enthusiasm and his loud, table-thumping speeches caught the eye of Michael ("Bloody Mike") Casey, the famed leader of San Francisco's teamsters. Casey recommended him to Dan Tobin, and in 1926 Tobin made Beck a teamster organizer. It was a wise, decision...
...society save as a deflater of current heroes and notions, but still with his wits very much about him. Shotover is Shaw. The Copley people have seen this, and have had Philip Bourneuf, who plays Shotover, made-up as an amazing facsimile of G.B.S. Seeing and hearing the wise and pungent comments come out of the familiar countenance gives them an additional kick. Mr. Bourneuf is not new to Shaw, having appeared in "Androcles and the Lion" on Broadway two years ago. He skits up and down his poop deck, pausing only long enough to snap his verbal whip...
Director Robert Wise has avoided much of the flavor of hokum by handling his gunplay as if it were something really necessary, rather than a Fourth of July display. His actors use horses because they seem to want to get somewhere; they come out of brawls looking mussed. Even Walter Brennan, a master of easy tearjerking, plays this one fairly straight...
This incongruous combination of adventures high and low runs through most serials of the fantastic variety. Perhaps this is necessary, for if Superman saved the mankind regularly twice a month, his Hooper rating might fall off. Even so, his sponsors have found it wise to offer trinkets and small prizes to encourage the unseen audience of juvenile consumers...
Soft-Shoe Routine. A wise old man in the vaudeville arts, Billy Rose has worked out quite an act for himself: he is the gullible little guy just trying to learn the ropes, and always being outsmarted. With all the self-depreciation, Billy lets it be known that he is a pretty clever fellow. From Socrates to Will Rogers it has been a good routine when done right, and Billy makes a fairly successful stab...