Word: cooperativeness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Akron, Ohio: Richard A. Chenoweth '46, 829 Second National Bank Building; Atlanta, Georgia: E. Symthe Gambrell, C. & S. National Bank Building; Birmingham, Alabama; December 27, Jerome A. Cooper '33, Massey Building; Buffalo, New York: December 30, Richard E. Moot '42, 400 Erie County Bank Building...
Some vagrant amusement is provided by Actor Webb's impersonation of a strong, silent westerner patterned after Gary Cooper, and by Jack La Rue's bit as a movie star who fancies himself the living model of the tough, coin-flipping gangster he plays on the screen. They do nothing to repair the picture's ingrained faults. As Director Seaton himself demonstrated in Miracle on 34th Street, the supernatural elements of a fantasy are best played off against the familiar realities of an everyday world. Instead, the coy hocus-pocus of For Heaven's Sake takes...
...straight drawing-room comedy, The Day After Tomorrow is anemic but agreeable. In its British way it manages to seem rather distinguished even when it is out at elbows. It has a nice languid urbanity, a pleasant suggestion of wit; and Melville Cooper is the suavest of performers playing the worldliest of peers. What does serious harm to the play is not its tenuous gaiety but its interminable romance. This not only makes for labored playwriting, but is never really in the true Lonsdale manner. Never was such real insouciance elbowed by such phony scruples; and never, for that matter...
...witty line, the ushers at the Shubert will probably be yawning for the better part of two weeks. Lonsdale's story is the old one about a penniless but aristocratic British family and a beautiful American girl who happens to be a millionaires. An excellent cast, headed by Melville Cooper and Ralph Michael, gets every drop of humor out of an essentially dull play...
...belief, especially in view of the physical attractions Miss Pearson offers. Michael plays his part staunchly and with great stamina. Miss Pearson doesn't come off quite so well, but one finds it easy to excuse her for not being as good an actress as she might be. Melville Cooper is properly cynical as a Lord with no money and even less "family pride...