Word: whole
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...beguiling Rosalind can do much to offset, if never quite obliterate, all this. Actress Hepburn's Rosalind reflects too much the player and too little the part. She seems the very best sort of performer -talented, cultured and good-looking-in college dramatics; she plays the whole thing more as a romp than a love story, and does beautifully by the blank verse while skating right over the poetry. William Prince makes a pleasantly lovesick Orlando, Ernest Thesiger a relentlessly melancholy Jaques...
...until last week did the astounding truth about the obscure Swiss company come out. Actually, Leader, A.G. owned the whole foreign empire of Czechoslovakia's shoe king, Thomas Bata, which was left when he died in an airplane crash in 1932. Leader's entire stock consisted of the 2,000 shares, issued merely to "bearer." Since the bearer had been Muska, he technically controlled Leader...
...same year, Thomas Sr. had scribbled a strange memorandum and put it in his safe. In it, he had authorized half-brother Jan to buy the whole empire-then worth some $45 million-for only $2,500,000. Justice Schreiber wrote that the only logical surmise was that he did it to "defraud the tax authorities of Czechoslovakia," by making his estate "seem infinitely smaller than...
...eyed moments, this damp fable is brightened by some well-written patches of wryly amusing dialogue. The whole picture wears an air of quality, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn's handsome production and a group of sincere performances directed by Mark (Champion) Robson. Robert Keith, a Broadway veteran playing his first screen role, acts the heroine's sympathetic father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings...
...West. But she puts over her songs, mostly such oldtimers as It Had to Be You, with vigorous good humor. Macdonald Carey appears to be wisely conserving his energies for more important assignments. If expert villain Luther Adler had had more to do, he might have stolen the whole show before Shelley had a chance to sing her numbers and get kicked off the island...