Word: roles
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Republican Cooper is cast in much the same role that Republican John Foster Dulles played in previous international conferences. An able and vigorous supporter of bipartisan foreign policy when he was in the Senate (he was beaten in 1948), 48-year-old, Yale-trained John Cooper had the backing of Michigan's ailing Arthur Vandenberg, who had approved his appointment...
Last week the Council of Europe, meeting at Strasbourg, was dandling the German problem on its knee. How far should the Council go in letting Germany back among the European nations? Should Germany be invited to send an observer-minister? The French objected. Or would the Germans accept the role of mere observers...
Jussi is looking forward to getting a few hints on histrionics before he sings on opening night at the Met next November. His assignment: the title role in Verdi's Don Carlos, with Broadway Shakespearean Director Margaret Webster doing the directing and giving Jussi the hints...
Cheaper by the Dozen (20th Century-Fox] is a movie version of the bestselling based-on-fact book about life with a father of twelve in the 19205. A plotless string of mild, rambling anecdotes, with Clifton ("Belvedere") Webb miscast in the central role, it is not much more fun than leafing through somebody else's family album...
...titled script gets no help from Director Jean (Johnny Belinda) Negulesco's studied straining for effects. Example: in Garfield's deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable French...