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Nancy Walker is one of these three, a futile organizer of the proletariat known aptly enough as Yetta Samovar, and she all but purloins the production, squeezing the most from both dialogue and a handful of witty ditties. All the rest of the Cast, including comedians Red Button and Philip...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1947 | See Source »

No matter how Canada turned before her mirror, she found most prospects pleasing. There were still some inconveniences and shortages: meat was still rationed, refrigerators and washing machines were still hard to get. And there were far from enough houses to go around. But there were good things aplenty.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: In the Looking Glass | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Week before last, twelve out of eighteen of the New York Film Crities named Samuel Goldwyn's "The Best Years of Our Lives" as the best moving picture of 1946 and oscared William Wyler, it director, for the best job of movie direction of the past year. In the 1946...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

Eye-pleasing are the splendid sets designed by Oliver Smith, the handsome interior of Miss Jenny's and the gaily colorful hobo-jungle especially adding to the beauty of the performance. The Duke Ellington music (book and lyrics are by John Latouche) is almost as rewarding with a score of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 12/11/1946 | See Source »

No pronouncement,by a governor of the Federal Reserve, which administers Regulation W under Executive Order, could have been more pleasing to the Morris Planners, whose prime business is consumer loans. But how much weight did affable Jake Vardaman pull on the board?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Commodore Speaketh | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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