Word: manneredness
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The Male Animal (by James Thurber & Elliott Nugent) got the spring season at Manhattan's City Center* off to a very happy start. For what was never much of a play, The Male Animal seems, after twelve years, remarkably engaging entertainment. In chronicling the academic and domestic woes of...
First the Story. Ealing has prospered, says Production Director Sir Michael Balcon, because it has resolutely avoided making "pale imitations of U.S. films." After World War II, several British companies began trying to outspend Hollywood. Ealing decided that its films (average cost: $420,000), if good enough, would make enough...
Both Rhubarb and Francis, the grey, mild-mannered first-prize winner of last year's Patsy, are the proteges of Independent Director Arthur Lubin. Lubin produced Francis in 1949 for $624,000, grossed $4,000,000, and thus .helped put Universal-International Studios comfortably in the black. He followed...
Yale men, usually a mild-mannered and conventionally apathetic bunch, have worked themselves into a good-sized spell of intellectual activity over a new College ruling requiring them to wear coats and ties at evening meals. In fact, from the amount of serious bitching the Yalies have done over a...
Up with Religion. "Catholicism in the United States is ... booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group, threatening anyone who so much as criticizes the way it ties its shoelaces. It gives the immaculately mannered Italian nobles in the Vatican shivers of...