Word: wittedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The reason that the play is not produced more often is that it requires an intelligent and mature production far beyond the capacities of any of our repertory companies. There is very little lacking in the Gielgud production. After a reasonably perfect rendering of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in...
The Day's Work. The quick-witted labor lawyer from Vera Cruz thrives on such fare. Mornings he works at the palace. Not till 3 does he break off for lunch. Afterwards he works, with sleeves rolled up and collar open, in the law-book-lined office of his...
Man of Tastes. When he wants to be nice, which means when he is off the field, Durocher can be a kind of pugnacious Prince Charming-garrulous, tart-witted, persuasive. He talks to kids as though they were grownups. He talks to chorus girls and Powers models as though they...
The trouble is that Boston (or any other place) just couldn't be as nit-witted as MGM's version of it. All of the sure fire of conflict that forces the Apley of the novel to reexamine his life every time he brushes against the non-Boston world--is...
In Trud, the trade-union paper, he found a young shoe-factory foreman named Vassily Matrosov being praised to the Red skies for the "amazing" changes by which he had boosted output. To hear Trud tell it, Comrade Matrosov was a combination Bedaux, Stakhanov and Henry Ford. Last week, in...