Word: tensions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shortly after World War II began, it was decided to revive the play. There were some fears that it might have ad-libbed its usefulness, that jesting at patriotism might not go down in wartime. The fears were groundless. With tension in the air, people have been gladder than ever to relax, and with soldiers in the audience, the wisecracks are even rawer than they used...
...after two years, four months of nationwide search and tension, dashing Georgia Belle Scarlett O'Hara was a wispish little English girl with a neatly clipped British accent. Born in Darjeeling, India, in the Himalaya Mountains, Nov. 5, 1913, she spent the first five years of her life in Calcutta, about which she remembers nothing. Later she attended convent school near London with Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little...
...Most afflicted by tension are patriots, close students of world affairs, Sunday drivers, businessmen, energetic and ambitious people generally...
...tells how his recent sickness was due to the rotten hours, the long jumps on one nighters, the nervous tension that all musicians live under. He shows how the music business is rotten with commercialism. Booking offices, agents, song pluggers, and the big broadcasting chains all come in for their share of panning. I don't think that there is much doubt that Shaw is absolutely right in what he says about all of this. His only trouble on these points is that he didn't make them strong enough. So far so good. But Shaw goes...
Excellently made (with his own money, according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot...