Word: acte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...want to act with Tracy," she said but before more than an eyebrow could be raised, "because he acts from within. Muni has the same quality." Miss Robson is going to play Ma Baxter in "The Yearling," opposite Tracy this Spring...
Belligerent Canada has passed a conscription act, but compared to that of the United States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men. The Conservative Party scoffs at the shortness of the training period, and would extend it to four months! But the Army feels that the present lack of equipment makes this impractical...
...Bligh in Laughton; Carole Lombard works the smell of tomato catsup into her hash-house waitress; William Gargan as the romantic ranch hand is a cad with gusto. Serious students of cinema technique will find many a valuable lesson watching these able craftsmen flex their artistic muscles as they act out the well-told tale of a pragmatic old Latin who would rather possess a pretty wife and baby even though both belonged to another. But the film's talky treatment of the problems of inconstancy does much to prove that movies have to move to be Your Best...
Representative Luce stands to the extreme Right of the Republican Party. He has consistently opposed every reform measure passed in the last eight years,--reforms which his own party is endorsing in the present campaign. His vote was recorded against the A.A.A., against the Wagner Labor Act, against the Social Security Act. Of the federal legislation to ameliorate the acute problem of inadequate housing for one-third of the nation, all he had to say was that "God made these people unfit to live in better dwellings." Here is a man who has closed his eyes to every evil...
Opposing this voice from the past is a young candidate whose eyes are very much open and whose viewpoint is that of 1940. A graduate of Harvard Law School, one of the three men who wrote the Social Security Act, once general counsel for the Labor Department, Tom Eliot has resigned from his latest post as Regional Director of the Wages and Hours Division to bring the representation of the 9th District up to date. His views are those of the relief and reform measures passed by the present administration. But he is not a rubber-stamp, not a coat...