Word: perfections
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dates and titles are: March 7, "lbsen and His Influence;" March 14, "The Perfect Shavian--G.B.S.;" March 21, "Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...
Miss Hellman has increased the ugliness of the play by chiselling each character to the bone. One or two incidents seemed a little more overwhelming than they had to be. Tallulah Bankhead, hungering for the fruits of wealth and waiting for her husband to die, performs to perfection the subtle shifting between cajolery and tyranny. Her two brothers whose ruthlessness is matched only by hers are done to a turn by Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid. Overcoming a tendency to over-act at first, Patricia Collinge is at the end the most convincing (if that is possible) of them...
...Wilcox," she said in perfect American. Neither of us replied. I remember thinking to myself: "Well, Mrs. Wilcox you shouldn't be talking to strange men in restaurants." "Ella Wheeler Wilcox" came next, with a very sweet and disarming smile. We were both on our feet, sputtering apologies...
Last March 26 a Braniff Airways Chicago-Dallas airliner cracked up near Oklahoma City's airport on a night takeoff, killing seven passengers and the stewardess. Since then no U. S. airline has suffered a passenger fatality. With five weeks to go for the first year of perfect operations, the National Safety Council made its fourth annual air-safety awards last week in Manhattan...
...Thomas Jefferson brought his bride, to live in a one-room cabin while he built his great house which he called Monticello. In twenty years he finished it, a low and yet magnificent house, all of fine red brick, with sturdy white columns on both front and rear, a perfect expression of its builder's mind, balanced, rational, austerely beautiful. And no house ever looked more a part of the red Piedmont hills...