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relieve the congestion, pollution, and unemployment of Naples. The recession and unemployment are contributing to a growing impatience with Italy's democratic institutions ,and their hopelessly...

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that the pop-song composers surely never imagined. When one of the singers reaches a line like "Oh, no, you can't take that away from me," it is so loaded with their sexual rivalry that it hangs...

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THE SCREEN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 FROM BAD TO WEST What with the New York Film Festival's swinging into action during the first two weeks of October, reviewers will be running like mad...

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BETWIXT AND BETWEEN THE SCREEN "The past is a foreign country; they do things differ- ently there." So begins director Joseph Losey's latest film, The Go-Between, which is certainly one of...

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THE IGNORED BRESSON THE SCREEN The arrival of a Robert Bresson film new to this country is for many of us a cause for huzzahs. But for a larger number of moviegoers it is only a so-what...

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BEGIRLED AND BEGUILED THE SCREEN Even poets as good as Byron and Shelley and Keats had their off-days and not-so-good poems, so I suppose we shouldn't feel too surprised or let-down that...

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SOUND OF REVELRY THE SCREEN In spite of the fact that these are supposed to be dog days for the movie industry, the studios are pouring out their wares almost faster than we or the paying...

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SNAKE IN THE GARDEN THE SCREEN Outstanding among the movies shown at the 1970 New York Film Festival was a Spanish entry called The Gdrden of Delights; and it has now, I'm glad to report,...

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ANNE HIGGINS THE ENGINEER ON THE TRAIN He turned the page. Logarithms proving the Electronic Cable or something equally inscrutable scuttled in rows from page to page. I was a hunter of...

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BED TO WORSE THE SCREEN Returning to the world of movies seems strange after a long illness such as I had. My battle with pneumonia, a heart attack and a stroke had a reality to it that...

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In such a situation cooperation and good will alone movie version. But I hardly expected such a flat movie will not bring significant change. The task is to rekindle from such...

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One, but it has been his concentration on this "above" at the expense of his fellow men. Kierkegaard made this mistake by misinterpreting man's necessarily "exclusive relation" to God as "the...

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At present, the briefer usually concludes with the announcement, 'If there are no more questions, I'll be followed by . . . . ' This subtle change in format suggests a more significant change...

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Here and Now Does the withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from Vietnam mean substantial deescalation, and greater willingness to negotiate, or is it actually a gesture intended to quiet...

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At the end of Play It Again, Sam, the hero fumbles at the belt of a zaJtig blonde who has come in to use the phone. Yet, this comedy curtain cannot hide the fact that we have been preached an...

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For Timely Insights Does the withdrawal of 25,000 American troops from Vietnam mean substantial deescalation, and greater willingness to negotiate, or is it actually a gesture intended to...

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Paths to Renewal, IV PASSION AND COMPASSION There are many obvious flaws in the new liturgy. But, to state the obvious, the answer to bad change is good change-not no change at all. Worship is...

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LONDON FOG 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 0 _9 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN A couple of British movies now on our screens seem unable to decide whether they want to be soap operas or melodramas, so they wind up more...

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there were few enough of them, aside from Williamson's occasional flashes and the garrulous fun Mark Dignam got out of Polonius. The performances were dull and perfunctory for the most part,...

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Church's teaching function. Its 14,000 circulation has begun to consist less of parish subscribers, and more of laymen, librarians and, to be sure, interested members of the film...

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All this by way of introduction, my way of explaining that I went to the Metropolitan Opera's production of Alban Berg's Wozzeck for the wrong reasons. I went in search of Biichner, not Berg and...

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inaugurate an ardent, incestuous love affair that continues throughout the book and long after: into memory and dream and death and life spiraling oneirologically upwards and away: Van and Ada...

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I've heard that show a first-rate musical mind in charge of all details. The rest of this Met season showed the effects of Mr. Bing's mind. He boasts that he runs the Met as if it were a museum,...

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FIDDLER ON A WESTCHESTEll ROOF O O O O O O O O O O O O e O THE SCREEN Perhaps the most amazing thing about the movie version of "Goodbye, Columbus" is its faithfulness to Philip Roth's fine...

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Commonweal this Spring As a weekly journal of opinion, Commonweal scrutinizes with interest renewed public sentiment for withdrawal from Vietnam and the substantial opposition...

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participant to participant and placing a restraining hand on their lips is a beautiful conception of the unkill- able idea, but like so many other inventive bits it is ex- tended until the...

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rying concealed weapons and tougher penalties--the very script to the letter of the gun lobby. They got the message at a public hearing packed with some of the 600,000 hunters in the state....

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ficient in his apolitical stance (why wasn't he affected by the depression as Oppenheimer was, the play seems to ask at one point) and Teller (as played by Herbert Berghof) is moving in the midst of...

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and Gobbi, superior to every recorded performance since then, and available in recent years only on imported Odeon records, has been issued here again on low-priced Seraphim mono records. Also...

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from the country, the show that goes on against odds, instant success) and the sailor comedy in which the seamen never have any duty runs (was it in Shipmates Forever that Ruby Keelcr danced...

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national Catholic Film Office at Venice--Pasolini, joining a protest against the Fascist code of the Festival, had tried unsuccessfully to withdraw it from competition-the film was seized by...

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BUNUEL & WELLES _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O O O O _9 THE SCREEN "On top of a pillar Simeon sat." So starts Phyllis Mco Ginley's tender and amusing poem, "Simeon Stylites." And so starts Luis...

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ratically performed. Haydn's Symphony No. 87 was fine and sturdy and Randall Thompson's Second (Randall Thompson/) was mindlessly bouncy but Strauss' "Don Quixote," which Bernstein has been...

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David Rogers, whose four-year sociological study of the New York school mess was published as the book, 110 Livingstone Street, concluded that blacks are right in thinking that the examining and...

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maddening sense of failure, for his poverty, for his inability to dominate circumstances as he desired." Finally Rolfe's style is as bizarre as his personality. His overripe prose, a florid...

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he coolly regards what is happening to our country? Aren't our professional academic societies complacent and remote? Aren't our schools, even the best of them, basically propagandistic, in...

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ARGOS HURRAH! THE STAGE A 15-year-old friend of mine from Minneapolis, a seasoned actor and theater-goer, warned me not to miss the Minnesota Theatre Company productions of The House of Atreus...

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public broadcasting must prove itself in Washington or perish. If public broadcasting had at its command the sentiments of large audiences, the political uncertainties could be more easily met. A...

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THE TEN BEST O O _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 O _9 O _9 _9 _9 THE SCREEN It was by no means the best of movie years; but then neither was 1968 the worst. The year witnessed a lot of mediocrity on our...

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and Gabriel Bacquier, a smoothly villainous Scarpia, but for sheer hilarity and evil-doing, no one outdid Franco Corelli oncc hc got what ! can only term a stranglchold on a note, he held it...

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Actually, there is good reason to hold that it would be just as well if the DOD did not become a major domestic factor. In countries where the military has become (with U.S. help) the center for...

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the "futzing around" that he did not care for in Futz, but it should not. The clarity that Pinter is talking about has to do with the dramatic image, the thing put on stage. His characters are...

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AFTER THE being tried in some Eastern European states. We should have to come to terms, honestly and in a liberal and empirical spirit, with findings like those described by the sociologist,...

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attack on white assumptions, the play manages to needle blacks who retreat into vicarious triumph through men like Jefferson and in the protagonist himself to question the wisdom of the black man...

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HAPPENINGS THE SCREEN A bunch of lively pictures stressing action and movement are presently on our screens. Several aim to be thoughtful but wind up mainly in the faster-faster category....

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the great performance conducted by Giulini on Angel records. For the comedy of La Fille du R~giment Donizetti doesn't provide writing as good as that of Don Pasquale and L'Elisir d'Amore; but...

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With cold, beautiful anger DANIEL STERN, author of After the War, has invented a microcosm as absurd as our times THE SUICIDE ACADEMY "In this cryptic, futuristic story, The Suicide...

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tragedy of such a cyclic dynamic is the possibility that dozens of courageous clerics will be sloughed off in the process and soon forgotten. This should not be allowed to happen, as the National...

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SECOND-HAND ROSE 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN It is not easy for a guy like me, who saw Fanny Brice often in his youth and thought her among the greatest, to review a movie now about...

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to be made to the historical dimension in all its detail and complexity. Lastly, political .theorists are perturbed by the behavioralist's renunciation of "utopian" thought....

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SING A SONG OF SPINSTERS THE SCREEN It comes as no surprise that Joanne Woodward gives a first-rate performance in "Rachel, Rachel." She has done that before. But this good film's big surprise is...

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This failure to co-operate with one another calls into question their loyalties to one another, to themselves, and to the people they serve. And if they have such difficulty working with one...

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BRAVERMANS WAKE • • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SCREEN After reviewing "Charlie Bubbles" and "The Fox" last week and having several more very off-beat films this week, I'm beginning to wonder if...

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BUBBLY BUT SAD 9 • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SCREEN It's been an odd movie week, odd but interesting. And he best of the oddballs is "Charlie Bubbles," a marvelous unny-sad English movie about...

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THE NAKED HUMAN THE SCREEN Returning to the idea that the proper study of mankind is man, movies are running the gamut this week from the sublime to the ridiculous. And much less ridiculous than...

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JOHN SIMON 1100-0-0-0 THE SCREEN Emile Zola, if ever he allowed himself rapture, would have been delighted with "Poor Cow," an English film now playing here. It opens with shots of a pain-racked...

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SMASHING, THAT'S WHAT THE SCREEN It's comedy time again, so here are some notes on the recent grab bag of funnies that may help you decide which is your meat and which your poison. Meatiest of the...

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cinema. Most of the drama in both The Stranger and Tonio Kroger is interior and what action there is is important mainly because of the reaction and thoughts of the protagonist. Films adapted from...

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members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on Nov. 15, 1959, to be amazingly objective and almost as cool as his book's title. Among the many wise things that Brooks does in writing his...

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We took your picture (you look friendly) We think you should be reading National Catholic Reporter because you're so much like our present subscribers, and they love it. The National Catholic...

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new, original plays, but if Albee is allowed to adapt away unchecked, he will end up not only witless in himself, but the cause that witlessness is in a good many others. (At the Plymouth) JOHN...

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YES, MY DARLING DAUGHTER • • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SCREEN However you may feel about Stanley Kramer's films, you have to admit that this producer often rushes in with timely themes where...

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It's Still Possible .. . to order subscriptions in time for Christmas for those who will greatly enjoy the magazine's varied and penetrating approach to the challenging issues of the day....

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THE SCREEN I wish "How I Won the War" were as good as producer-director Richard Lester's intentions in making this anti-war-film film. Telling the rambling story of likable, young, very naive and...

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THE STAGE The question "Who was the greatest American dramatist?" must be answered with a paraphrase from Gide, "Eugene O'Neill, alas." After some lively seafaring plays, O'Neill underwent a land...

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THE SCREEN I am sure Emerson didn't have anything like "Cool Hand Luke" in mind when the American poet-essayist wrote, "What are heroes, prophets, men but pipes through which the breath of Pan doth...

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too rigidly maintained tempos of the first and last movements, but the flawed performance of a great musician. With treble turned down and bass turned up the sound is excellent. The piano music of...

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THE SCREEN Perhaps it's good for us, in these days when we're having a plethora of new New Wave films, and films about motorcycle gangs, hippies and other errant youth, and far-out movies that...

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FLOW GENTLY SWEET LIFFEY THE SCREEN In their ardent search for material, movie makers have come up this week with three films all stemming from books unlikely as a source for pictures....

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?????????????? THE SCREEN Last week, in commenting on the recent New York Film Festival, I wound up saying that this Festival, with its mixture of good and bad movies, was at least...

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• • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SCREEN Movie critics on the New York scene breathed a sigh of relief on Sept. 30. The Fifth New York Film Festival ended its ten-day run, and the exhausted...

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the destruction and eventual obliteration of a tiny nation in Southeast Asia, whatever party he belongs to? My own fear is that we Christians have hidden for so long behind the cloak of...

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Insights on the Issues As a national journal of opinion, Commonweal keeps under its scrutiny the wide-ranging concerns of contemporary man. For example, it relates the Vietnam war to the domestic...

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a unit) to the Black Caucus and 23,000 votes for every- POTPOURRI one else. "What's the point of debate in a situation like this?" asked some innocent from the floor, his...

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ROOM WITH NO VIEW film's foreword by Bunuel himself, the film must have meanings and explanations....

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I do not shrink from the employment of organized vi- NUGGETS OF FUN olence under limited conditions, but I do not support violence in America because guerrilla warfare...

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TO SIDNEY, WITH LOVE Only priests of deep humanity and...

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THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Only priests of deep humanity ...

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ARE PARENTS NECESSARY? Commonweal's Role On day-to-day issues, what is Commonweal's point ...

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crying, "Come back, Shane, come back." Come back, THE DECLINE OF THE WEST "Shane,"...

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writers was accomplished, it created a furor in Soviet lit- Film fans, particularly older ones, will be delighted with erary circles that has persisted to this day and has forced the classy...

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DISOBEDIENCE NOW! 9 O 9 9 O 9 9 O 9 9 0 O0 O "Soul butter" is not enough JAY .NEUGEBOREN We can no longer delude ourselves. When, 10 or 20 years from now, we view this period of our history...

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work themselves into such frenzy that they swallow their l i n e s . . , especially not when it's most crucial to see how what they are saying stacks up against what they are doing. (At the...

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AND BROKE HIS CROWN 0 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN I'm not sure that the younger generation will latch on to "A King's Story." Kids just don't care much about the problems of a...

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be ones of retrogression rather than advance. But in the extramural concerns of the pope, a very different voice is being sounded. This has been symbolized by his consistent concern for peace and...

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Issues of the Day As a national journal of opinion expressly committed to discuss public affairs and religion, literature and the arts, Commonweal brings a wide range of man's present-day...

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IS YOUTH NECESSARY? 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 0 9 THE SCREEN The youth cycle in cinema, given quite an impetus by Richard Lester's weU-made, exhilarant movies and more 9 recently by sober...

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rather as microbes under a microscope. This is all right as a literary device, but on stage comment doesn't seem to be enough. (Closed at the Royal Playhouse.) PAUL VELDE A SUCCESSFUL...

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BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER 0 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 THE SCREEN I suppose "Hombre," with its roster of hardened characters and James Wong Howe's handsome color photography, could be...

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The second and third acts of the roundelay are re- freshed with humor, some bawdy and some outlandish. Only priests of deep humanity But what, in sum, can be said, except that...

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LATE BLOOM While the camera wanders with Bloom and occasionally with Stephen...

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BERGMAN'S MASKS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 THE SCREEN As much as I admire the great Swedish film-maker, Ingmar Bergman, I'd like to shake him every now and then--especially when I feel he is...

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SIXTEENTH CENTURY ALBEE "The Taming of the Shrew" can be little more today than an extravagant...

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TOTAL WHAT? THE SCREEN When the English version of "Marat/Sade" appeared on the stage in London and then later in New York, the critics and then their audience-readers screamed "total theater."...

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NO KNACK SCREEN It becomes obvious as more and more zany comedies turn up in the cycle about young folk today that Richard Lester's movies like "The Knack" and the Beatles' films at the...

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MORE WAR THE SCREEN There's no surcease in the war cycle; but neither is there any surcease in today's wars. And as long as audiences continue to attend war movies, producers will continue...

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NIGHT OF MADNESS THE SCREEN Perhaps if more mystery thrillers and crime-and-detection films had the quality and substance of "The Night of the Generals," I'd like the whole genre better....

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NO ESCAPE THE SCREEN With all the new releases on our screens, this turns out to be a something-for-everybody week. And interestingly enough, the most thoughtful of the lot is a 1955...

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I SPY THE SCREEN Movie cycles usually start slowly, gain momentum when individual films make money, rise to a peak when every movie-maker wants to get in on the dough, continue to the point...

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TOM, TOM, THE PEEPER'S SON THE SCREEN Now that anything goes in movies, we can expect to get anything. And we do, especially from abroad (although Hollywood has a way of putting over a fast...

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BLOOD AND GUTS SCREEN Cinema is often at its best in adventure-and-action films. But with the vogue now for big, expensive, superduper spectacles, the adventure-and-action stuff has...

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ILLUSION AND REALITY M. MMWd Michelangelo Antonioni, the great Italian director who seems to be obsessed with man's fruitless search for certainty, has come up with another of his brilliant...

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TEN BEST THE SCREEN Game time again! Any movie goer can play it; and almost every one does. Perhaps selecting a Best Ten list is a good thing—for audiences who review the year and pick out the...

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MORE ON MORE THE SCREEN Perhaps I was a reviewer of little faith in producerdirector Fred Zinnemann during the first twenty minutes of "A Man for All Seasons." We are shown scenes...

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CUTTING CAPERS THE SCREEN Fed up as I am with comedies about crooks whose big project is to steal an art treasure ("Topkaki," "How To Steal a Million," etc.), I approached "Gambit," the...

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THE SCREEN Perhaps MGM's plans for making a musical film from their much-loved "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" inspired Walt Disney to hurry up with "Follow Me, Boys!" Now that Richard Burton has withdrawn...

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NOT FOR BURNING SCREEN No doubt everyone has his bad weeks. This has been mine—with the arrival of three new films about which one could have great expectations and none came up to the bright...

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SLICK AND SICK THE SCREEN Audiences who go for black comedies, and the blacker the better, should certainly find "Cul-de-Sac" up their alley. Directed in England by the Polish Roman...

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PROS, JUST PROS THE SCREEN "The Professionals" referred to in the film of the same name are four tough, hardened-by-experience men who are hired by a wealthy southwestern rancher to bring back...

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blonde who works in a shoe factory in a small town where there's a shortage of boys, director Milos Forman does come through with universal touches; and as you watch Andula and her girl friends and...

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BERNICE AMES CANARY escapes into yellow song repeating his one freedom. Almost too slender for shadow were there sun, the bars of his cage, a benevolent burden, staff the clear music he...

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THREE COMEDIES THE SCREEN A trio of new comedies is on our screens, films that are not of the something-for-everybody school but are of the brazen-and-brash variety—for audiences who can...

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THE SCREEN The name of the movie is "The Bible ... In the Beginning." So I am somewhat surprised, now that the reviews are appearing, at the critics' protest that the film doesn't cover the...

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THE FILM FESTIVAL THE SCREEN Although Warren Beatty played the lead in one of the better movies in last year's New York Film Festival, "Mickey One," I doubt if the Festival would have asked for...

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tions of his film (like "Dialogue Without Consumer Product" and the reference to this being about "the children of Marx and Coca Cola") long, seemingly endless, scenes in which the young characters...

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PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 _9 0 0 THE SCREEN English film-makers producer Michael Relph and director Basil Dearden, who are not adverse to tackling such ticklish problems as...

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In early July, not long after the coup, Ongania seemed to have the enthusiastic backing of just about every sector of the population. His reputation and obvious devotion to his faith helped build...

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more exciting than we have realized. The ironclad definitions of a theological rationalism have been split wide open and mystery has come flooding back into our religious awareness and our...

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OFFBEAT TRIO THE SCREEN Sometimes it is hard to tell just whom film-makers had in mind as the audience for their movies. On our screens now are three such pictures--all interesting in a way,...

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son SNCC prefers to use only Negro field workers in Negro communities. At present, there is no truly progressive force of any significance in the Deep South other than the Negroes. Therefore,...

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Of the actors, Mr. Torn is sprightly and intelligent, and Conrad Bain does his usual solid job. The rest range, as usual, from adequate to forget-it. (At the 81st Street Theater) WILFRID...

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FUN AND GAMES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 0 _9 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Although there has already been a lot of grumbling about the English-language version of "Tokyo Olympiad" which was prepared for American...

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is not the sense of truth, or what Shaw called the moral passion, but simple eccentricity of imagination. And judging from the audiences in off-Broadway houses, an isolation booth is exactly what...

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instance, Bond novels, the New Yorker and Time styles are perfections of technique.) If for many people today the artist and his work seem to have come uncomfortably close to the fortune...

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Why should L6vi-Strauss have made such concessions to historicism, Marxist or Sartrist? And why was he willing to concede here the moral stand which distinguishes his own anthropology from the...

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fully enough, his tone of voice may be reassembled with them (e.g., the Abe Burrows version of "Guys & Dolls") : but this must be done through analogy and metaphor, which is why it requires a...

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LEXICON OF YOUTI[ _9 O O O O O O O O O O _9 _9 _9 THE SCREEN No doubt there have been films about young people since the beginning of movies, but I can think of few that stand out with any...

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girl in hopes of being reborn--and this is seen as more financial maneuvering. Since his wife is Jewish, he can only improve himself by the change. This is the level on which gossip thinks, it...

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THE LAST ROUND-UP 0 0 0 0 0 _9 0 _9 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE STAGE The Broadway season, which habitually comes in like a Cadillac and goes out like a Stutz Bearcat, is already showing signs of...

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THE MORGAN GRINDER 0 0 _9 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Undaunted that their darling "Darling" lost out on Oscar night to a more popular American mediocrity, the British keep plugging away....

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THE LADY WAS A LION THE SCREEN When I was a little boy one of my aunts used to take me to an ice-cream parlor where an enormous oil painting held me as goggle-eyed as the sweets. The picture,...

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NOT BOTTLED IN BOND 0 0 0 0 0 0 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 .9 THE SCREEN Crime-and-detection stories, abetted by chases and other dangers, have been popular cinema fare ever since movies were...

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bringing a message of peace which we had damn well better listen to. The result is cranky and disturbing and, however easily dismissed on the conscious level, the voice remains in your ear. (At...

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~ S G ~ VASSAR O0 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Sidney Lumet, who scorns big, box-office movies and has directed such stimulating, but-not-always-successful films as "Long Day's Journey...

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CITIES OF THE PLAIN THE SCREEN American film makers have sprung three movies that seem determined to prove that La Dolce Vita in the States is just as atrociously unsweet as that...

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DOUGLAS L. FBOST THAT MARCH DAY That March day when the hill runs with clear water and the sidewalk is wet between the cracks and the earth is brown, soft, making mud and the last crests of...

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THE SCREEN Not since Orson Welles startled movie-goers with an opening scene showing I ago being punished in an iron cage has there been such a disputatious "Othello" as the current film...

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THE SCREEN The James Bond films didn't start it. There were good movies about spies and counter-intelligence made from Graham Greene stories and movies on this subject made by Hitchcock and...

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MORE WAR THE SCREEN Foolish boy that I was, I really thought when "The Longest Day" was released in 1962 that this lengthy epic about D-Day was the war film to end all war films. No such luck....

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before she can do anything at all and her companion, Duperret, turns out to be a rawng satyr, who makes high-minded speeches while fumbling grotesquely for Charlotte at the same time. It is not...

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THE SCREEN Carlo Ponti, the producer of "Doctor Zhivago," has said about his film "This was not only my greatest challenge but an unforgettable experience made rich by such rare talents." The...

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THE TEN BEST 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 THE SCREEN Time to play the game again. And the selection of the Ten Best is indeed a game- for the reviewer, who can be as personal and arbitrary as he...

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DARK WORLD THE SCREEN It's interesting that two new films of high quality just managed to escape being soap operas through good acting and superior productions. "A Patch of Blue," produced by...

THE SCREEN (December 1965)

LAUGH, CLOWN THE SCREEN Every now and then one sees a play or movie and laughs and laughs and then afterward wonders what all the shouting was about. Such a film is "A Thousand Clowns," for...

THE SCREEN (December 1965)

SEMI-SERIOUS HALF-MUSICALS THE STAGE It was much better when musicals were designed for mythical out-of-towners with cardboard suitcases and huge bankrolls. All the reviewer had to do then was...

THE SCREEN (December 1965)

ANYTHING ON WHEELS THE SCREEN A cluster of current movies seem to be determined to prove Shaw's adage: "It's a pity that youth is wasted on young people." These films bubble with the energy...

THE SCREEN (November 1965)

FELLINI, FREUD AND FRILLS THE SCREEN I don't know whether Federico Fellini is familiar with Lewis Carroll's Alice stories. (As a matter of fact, our information about the great director's...

THE SCREEN (November 1965)

PAUL VELDE THE MASTER BUILDER The forms are up, the cracks calked, Pour me some concrete, Master Builder. The dawn can wait, I cannot. Over here, Master Builder! What they do these days — Not...

THE SCREEN (November 1965)

DULLSVILLE THE SCREEN The opening shot at the Third New York Film Festival in September was "Alphaville," a science-fiction comedy-thriller made by the highly touted French director, Jean-Luc...

THE SCREEN (November 1965)

P.O.W. THE SCREEN Incredible as it seems, the war films go on and on— and by now have extended beyond the cycle stage into a permanent category. Like the poor, it may be with us always—or at least...

THE SCREEN (October 1965)

BOREDOM AMONG TillEVES 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 THE SCREEN Sometimes it's hard to ascertain why some films go wrong. Certainly "The Reward" had everything in its favor. It is the first...

THE SCREEN (September 1965)

So some Protestants ~md themselves alienated from their fellow Protestants because the latter, they feel, are engaging in ecumenical dialogue in terms that are oriented almost exclusively toward...

THE SCREEN (September 1965)

ALIENATED ALIENS 0 0 _9 _9 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE SCREEN The Third New York Film Festival is in full swing and the reviewers are once again getting eye strain in their efforts not to...

THE SCREEN (September 1965)

SUMMER SUMMARY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O0 O0 0 0 THE SCREEN Since this year's summer films were better-than-usual, and since this magazine's hi-weekly summer schedule reduces my space, I'm giving a...

THE SCREEN (August 1965)

DARLING O @ O O O O _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 @ _9 _9 THE SCREEN What with the success of "La Dolce Vita" and splurge of "Boccaccio '70," it was inevitable that other film makers should get in the act of...

THE SCREEN (August 1965)

Congolese African Convention or Conaco, he seems to have succeeded in providing it with some kind of internal political base. He has also worked to improve his image as a nationalist. This...

THE SCREEN (July 1965)

implication. We find ourselves here in two psychological kingdoms: the Brechtian jungle kingdom, where people are too suspicious to get their relationships straight, and the nursery kingdom...

THE SCREEN (July 1965)

A COMIC KNACK 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Of all types of films, comedies are the hardest to review-mainly because their appeal depends so much on the likes or dislikes of the...

THE SCREEN (June 1965)

ONE MAN'S HOBBY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O0 O0 0 0 THE SCREEN It iS to be hoped that movie goers who attend "The Collector" (and they will be many once word gets around about what an outstanding film...

THE SCREEN (June 1965)

off a good many such obsessions-one thinks of George Orwell, who brought the smell of excrement into almost everything he wrote-but Brecht seems to have got this out of his system early, to have...

THE SCREEN (June 1965)

Danny Kaye gives this impression still more powerfully. For whatever this particular quality may be worth, Tommy Steele still has it, and it makes him one of the most attractive performers...

THE SCREEN (June 1965)

from their current helplessness that they were never of much use. But Williams seems to suggest that dreaminess has been thrust upon them by circumstance: their actions may now be grotesquely...

THE SCREEN (May 1965)

enee of the regime without noticeably melting the Afrikaner's soul, I believe we must insist upon the parallel creation of a stand-by military force, poised to step in and forestall the mutual...

THE SCREEN (May 1965)

Not Pass Go" is quite a good play and it shares much of the same ineffectiveness. The necessity to conceal homosexual intentions has driven several playwrights into surrealism and absurdity, so...

THE SCREEN (May 1965)

HARLEM, MON AMOUR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 THE SCREEN Every now and then there comes along a film so good that one wishes it were better. Such a picture is "The Pawnbroker," in which Rod...

THE SCREEN (May 1965)

reflecting that it signifies an application of the principle of base and superstructure at a level of thought which Marx himself later re-examined critically, and which today should be regarded...

THE SCREEN (April 1965)

ON THE OLD CAMP GROUND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Now that people who used to play the game of deciding what's "U" and "non-U" and its successor, what's "in" and what's "out," are...

THE SCREEN (April 1965)

also a matter of luck and intelligence. Mr. Chevalier's luck consists partly of being a foreigner, and of being essentially a one-man turn. As a Frenchman, he has always been something of an...

THE SCREEN (April 1965)

AS SHERMAN WAS SAYING _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 _9 0 0 0 0 _9 THE SCREEN This will have to be a personal review-mainly because I'm getting fed up with war pictures. The paying customers, however,...

THE SCREEN (April 1965)

PUT OUT MORE FLAGS 0 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 _9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 THE SCREEN Last week it was "The Train," and this week it's "The Bus." The former is a star-cast fiction film based on a couple of pages of...

THE SCREEN (April 1965)

charm. When you later read some of its funnier lines in somebody's Broadway column, you may be surprised at their relative flatness. You may find it hard to distinguish them from their...

THE SCREEN (March 1965)

geridge is its formidable second-strike capacity. Woe to anyone who controverts it-the muggeridge strikes back with the speed of a cobra, with a suave giggle and lick of the forked tongue. The...

THE SCREEN (March 1965)

and two perverted uncles; as a tragedy, it would play up the hero's sensitiveness, his hatred of his father, his campy relations with his mother, would become, in short, the 3,000th installment of...

THE SCREEN (March 1965)

a vehicle for ideas other than itself—since such ideas must inevitably revert to conventional logic and language and thus land you in the "Tiny Alice" quandary—remains unanswered. Or at least I...

THE SCREEN (March 1965)

he can be elected. But I do know that he would make a good President, and I am immovably persuaded that he would make a great one. Therefore I am for him, forward, back-ward, and starting in the...

The Screen (February 1965)

At present, the spread between expectation and performance is the only tragedy playing on Broadway. The effort to bring shows within range of their asking price induces a climate of perpetual...

THE SCREEN (February 1965)

I use the word "Brooklyn" generically), this background must be kept in place by the viewer. Future audiences may find this harder to do. The depression still lingers in the Miller house. In real...

The Screen (February 1965)

LIQUOR IS QUICKER • • • • • • • • • • • • • • THE SCREEN Since I could find practically nothing to recommend in the feckless "Goodbye, Charlie" (for which George Axelrod wrote the original stage...

THE SCREEN (February 1965)

that they are inferior to the fullblooded of either race in physical development and strength.. . ." In an early Missouri case, it was held that mixed unions were incapable of reproduction. Later...

The Screen (January 1965)

SAINT JOHN'S UNIVERSITY Collegeville, Minnesota Established I857 Conducted by the Benedictine Fathers of St. John's Abbey Saint John's is a four-year, liberal arts college for men. Largely...

THE SCREEN: (January 1965)

the ideas as such, just to open ourselves to the impression. It is precisely this that I find weak in too many places, al-though full of freakish vigor in others. Of the actors, John Gielgud...

THE SCREEN (January 1965)

Several critics have questioned whether "Hughie" is a play at all. But O'Neill, by the end of his career, was so total a dramatist that he could mount a complete drama in a ten-minute speech. The...

THE SCREEN (January 1965)

SINCE jazz is the full expression of the man playing, it is clear that modern jazz is more grounded in protest than ever before. It is not so much such obvious works as Faubus Fables which prove...

The Screen (December 1964)

as that proposed by Clark and Sohn in their book World Peace Through Law, is not only completely utopian, but approaches the problem from the wrong road. The problem is basically a political one,...

The Screen (November 1964)

1959-21,000 1961—24,000 1963-30,000 1964-44,000 Circulation of The Commonweal has doubled in th e past five years, grown by nearly half in the past twelv e months. We are very gratified by...

The Screen (October 1964)

THE SCREEN Dr. Strangelove, I Presume? MOVIEGOERS who saw "Dr. Strangelove" earlier this year will realize even before they get to the mid-point of the new "Fail Safe" that the plots of the two...

The Screen (October 1964)

THE SCREEN You Must Call on Us Too HAVING been greatly impressed and enthusiastic about Friedrich Duerrenmatt's play, "The Visit," in which the Lunts appeared some years ago, I was looking...

The Screen (September 1964)

THE SCREEN Kinesthetic Week THE MOVIES seem to be ganging up on us this week to make us uncomfortable in the theater. Not that the films reviewed below are necessarily bad cinema; it's just that...

End of Summer (September 1964)

richer yet, in the fullness of its knowledge and the depth of its perpection.'" This passage holds the key to Paul's overall sense of the Church, a sense which presumably led to the com- position...

Fried Potatoes and Alligatoes (September 1964)

brought out very well by Mr. Wills. One of these, to use his words, "is that the Church's rulers can err even in the exercise of her divinely granted authority, so far as the administration of the...

The Screen (August 1964)

THE SCREEN Man's Inhumanity to God IT IS a fortunate week in which two Elms as good as "Behold a Pale Horse" and "The Night of the Iguana" turn up to remind moviegoers that understanding and...

And Good Red Herring (August 1964)

THE SCREEN And Good Red Herring AS SUMMER fare goes, this year's assortment hasn't been too bad. And the new films this week, although not exactly brilliant, are interesting enough to...

Sicily Revisited (July 1964)

ever the exact import of this statement may be (I would hate to imagine the howl some theologians would have let loose had anyone but the Pope talked in such terms), it certainly does not suggest...

The Screen (July 1964)

THE SCREEN Lights, Action, Camera BECAUSE of its nature, the cinema medium went in for adventure films right from the beginning; and through the years, it has made a plethora of lively items...

Murder, Anyone? (July 1964)

THE SCREEN Murder, Anyone? COMEDIES in which murder plays an important theme have been with us for a long time; the movies have had their share of fun films with corpses strewn all over the...

Sadists' Delight (June 1964)

Child's Drawing Memories of the fish, circles of life-sustaining sea are nonsense to the mother's parallactic vision. The mirror of convention does not close down at three years; space is...

Brando Laughs (June 1964)

THE SCREEN Brando Laughs WHEN Greta Garbo turned up in her first talking picture back in 1930, the publicity slogan built up around "Anna Christie" was "Garbo Speaks!" Now that Marlon Brando has...

Love and Compost (May 1964)

THE SCREEN Love and Compost MY ONLY real row with the movie version of "The Chalk Garden" is that it isn't as good as the play. Ordinarily it is rather time-wasting for a critic to go on and on...

Like Who? (May 1964)

THE SCREEN Like Who? WHETHER there is to be a continuation of the current cycle of interracial films will probably depend on how well two new items in the series do. Neither "Black Like Me" nor...

Have You Any Wool? (May 1964)

The Silence Within Under the dark thunder, under the wonder of why, we wait; we hear; we fear; and near the mask our eyes meet grief with grief. The heart's wearing time is chained to the...

Movies on Movies (May 1964)

THE SCREEN Movies on Movies GLOWING as I am about most of this year's Oscar awards, I'm sorry not to be able to praise a new batch of movies. No one of them is a likely winner of...

Strange Bedfollows (April 1964)

THE STAGE Barbra Streisand: That's Enough THERE IS nothing more obnoxious about our theater than the star system, with its glorification of emptinesses, but if Barbra Streisand has to be thought...

And the Grandeur (April 1964)

THE SCREEN And the Grandeur NO DOUBT the children should have their day or week at the movies. And this is it. For one reason or the other, some of the films reviewed this week may even...

All That Glitters (March 1964)

THE SCREEN All That Glitters MANY American moviegoers, anxious to depreciate Hollywood, consider foreign films as gems of purest rays serene. While we have received many, many first-rate...

The Screen (January 1964)

THE SCREEN We Look Before and After THAT Best Ten stuff again! Even with all the arbitrariness of "ten" and "best," the idea of a year's end list like this is good. It makes even the most...

The Screen (September 1963)

and should be the sacramentals of Christian family life. Marriage and parenthood is as much a vocation in God's Church as the priesthood and can demand quite as much selfless dedication. Marriage is...

The Screen (September 1963)

which art's critics so often seem to think artists are betraying-and this is a vision of the world and under- standing of man's place in it. An artist (using the word in its widest, creative...

The Screen (August 1963)

will exert stronger influence than learned books on divinity schools and seminaries to spread a deeper understanding of the salvational significance of the liturgy. In this fourth section on worship...

The Screen (August 1963)

IT IS UNFORTUNATE that tlm attorney did not shed more light on this point. In dismissing the state's action in this manner, he was just following the example of those public servants who yell...

The Screen (July 1963)

THE SCREEN Those Dogs o~ War Again VERY MUCH mistaken were the critics and commen- tators last fall who predicted we'd seen the last of war films when "The Longest Day," the lengthy and...

The Screen (July 1963)

Protestantism in American Society-IV The Usefulness of Anti- Catholicism FRANKLIN H. LITTELL THERE ARE THOSE who have passed through the portals of the modern university and are thus...

The Screen (July 1963)

THE SCREEN Cleo From 8 to 12 FULL WELL may you wonder as you watch "Cleopatra" where the $40 million went. Darryl F. Zanuck president of 20th Century-Fox, the company that made and is releasing...

The Screen (June 1963)

and an early morning job to get the money to pose as a rich Englishman. His handling of the dual roles and the dual situations is rather amusing. But the funniest member of the cast is Lou Jacobi as...

The Screen (June 1963)

THE SCREEN Tricks of the Trade LIKE THE torrents of spring, the studios have suddenly released a slew of films. Perhaps they are meant to catch the early summer trade, or perhaps they...

The Screen (June 1963)

THE SCREEN Siblings Hissing ALL THEMES considered, there seems to be no sub- ject of greater interest to film makers than family life. Although American examples get more elaborate and more...

Zen Catholicism (June 1963)

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The Screen (June 1963)

her baby. She returns to the rooming house, discovers its people aren't hopelessly mean and that they have a warmth r.nd concern for her-even the money-minded landlady and the basement prostitutes....

The Screen (May 1963)

THE SCREEN Revolt of the Vegetables ALTHOUGH I am not a science-fiction fan, I do enjoy an occasional science-fiction movie. "The Blob" and "The Thing" managed to raise a few goose pimples...

The Screen (May 1963)

THE SCREEN "Look, Brothers" I HAD the good fortune to attend a preview of "I Am With You," the four-part series on the history of the Catholic Church and its ecumenical councils, which is being...

The Screen (May 1963)

THE SCREEN God's Silence IN HER excellent article on Ingmar Bergman in The Commonweal of March 11, 1960, Arlene Croce referred to him as "the hottest director on the international scene today."...

The Screen (May 1963)

Before a Row of Votive Candles The candles that before me, placidly Fulfilling their good office, burn o n Out of their goodness may they send a gleam Into my thoughts, my self-exalting...

The Screen (May 1963)

THE SCREEN Bluebeard Revisited NO MATTER how much one may or may not like foreign films, one has to admit that they liven our screens and inject some thoughtful diversion into the often-routine...

The Screen (April 1963)

THE SCREEN Torn T.Shirt Mended THOSE WHO have followed the film career of Marlon Brando, whether they like him or not, must admit he is a dedicated actor who takes his work seriously. His wide...

The Screen (April 1963)

formed. Ball handles this interplay with brilliant craftsmanship, creating an extraordinary rhythm of speech, gesture and movement, maintaining through the most imaginative and finely paced...

The Screen (April 1963)

hopeless eternity. Bathed in the piety and idiot enthusiasm of that audience for whom O'Neill is holy writ, assaulted in our intelligence, esthetic faculties and simple hope of physical survival,...

The Screen (April 1963)

THE SCREEN Westward Ho! AUDIENCES who like their movies big, spectacular, full of adventure and excitement, sound and fury, should find "How the West Was Won" right up their alley. Made as it...

The Screen (March 1963)

Ideas, a group with some promising notions about what we need for a theatrical rejuvenation. This play wasn't quite the answer but it was worth doing. It left me with a renewed desire to see...

The Screen (March 1963)

emmgh or. ~tegrated stringently with the events. For another, the fantastic elements-the family's appearing to the actor's sight but not to the woman's (who, I must fred room to say, is played...

The Screen (March 1963)

Ildtets, invariably to seats in the extreme right or left hand rear corner of the orchestra at Broadway theaters, a bit more favorably located in the off-Broadway houses, for second-nights-except...

The Screen (March 1963)

THE STAGE See America Next IN ANY discussion of the state of American theater the question of decentraliTation is bound to arise. Like belief in the open stage, the idea of...

The Screen (March 1963)

be thought of as natural in present-day America. That conflict is the center of the play, the thing that satisfies the textbooks, but of course Inge knows how to give an impression of complexity,...

The Screen (February 1963)

THE SCREEN The Child Is Father o] the Man THE quotation that Harper Lee uses at the beginning of her thoughtful novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is from r Lamb: "Lawyers, I suppose, were...

The Screen (February 1963)

newspaper a `collective propagandist and a collective organizer." Is this the way the diocesan press is being THE SCREEN used today? Or is it, as the popes have urged, helping to...

The Screen (February 1963)

more, setting the strictest dimensions for what is going THE STAGE to...

The Screen (January 1963)

THE STAGE Marceau: the Limits of Illusion WHETHER or not Marcel Marceau has brought mime as far as it will go in the modem world, I am in no position to say. But after seeing him perform for the...

The Screen (January 1963)

keep referring to our programs) to a lady pulp magazine editor called Hyacinth Beddoes Laffoon and a magnificently unscrupulous Hollywood agent named Harry Hubris. In each case he lifts the...

The Screen (January 1963)

THE SCREEN The Bitter with the Better It's that time of year again, when a reviewer selects his Best Ten. The number is arbitrary-but so is the list; this is one time a reviewer can be as...

The Screen (December 1962)

wire of a refusal to explain-exhibits his special gifts categories of action, the division between the "serious" and deficiencies on a much larger scale than the two and the trivial,...

The Screen (December 1962)

apparently has no qualms about running the risk of time to time, however, how Durante's money-troubled self-righteousness. But when we make a different judg- circus can afford such...

The Screen (December 1962)

to be held as soon as Archbishop Florit returns to his diocese. But others have begun to express certain mis- THE SCREEN givings and to intersperse their usual remarks about...

The Screen (December 1962)

gogues and the docile people, the shifts of power, And pitiless general wars that prepare the fall; THE SCREEN But also the enormous unhuman beauty of things; ...

The Screen (November 1962)

manner of Emil Jannings in "The Blue Angel," through the film's chief assets. He starts out portraying the James Earl Jones who invests the G. I. with vast kinetic Bounty's first mate as an...

The Screen (November 1962)

long. It shouldn't take two-and-a-half hours to put over THE SCREEN the message...

The Screen (November 1962)

But almost everything about "Beyond the Fringe" with France. Billy Budd, an extraordinarily handsome takes us a long way from what we have been used to. and well-liked sailor...

The Screen (November 1962)

ing concerned his upbringing and present attitude more religious atheists. This sparse, deceptively-simple towards them. In Act III we learn-as a coup de thedtre book describes the...

The Screen (November 1962)

low us, though generally we saw no evidence of overt conflict. At the end of the conference, when I went down to Beirut to arrange my transportation, the only outward signs of the revolt I saw...

The Screen (October 1962)

of abundant vitality and great charm, almost lends her sets, editing, sound, etc., there is an imposing array of play an interest, which Blossom doesn't lend to his. international big...

The Screen (October 1962)

above a surface occupied by characters who are almost shipwrecked on a British isle, says "where have you entirely discrete, unconnected except by melodramatic beeen" and "dahling" with...

The Screen (October 1962)

why, if Mann ist Mann exists as a work of stage art, it from Brecht) and is marred by some totally inept pei- cannot be about brainwashing or Communism or Cap- performances, but it...

The Screen (October 1962)

THE...

The Screen (September 1962)

THE STAGE Prospects and an Epitaph NO LESS than other men, the drama critic lives on hope. From week to week and season to season he feeds off the possibilities of things not yet seen and...

The Screen (September 1962)

no longer has this fear, so many of its leaders fail to recognize that other minorities have not yet achieved this status and that there always will be minorities who will be struggling to achieve...

The Screen (August 1962)

of especially those disciplines which contribute to its elucidation. Biblical scholarship seeks to throw more light on a substantial portion of divine revelation through the use of tools based on...

The Screen (August 1962)

THE SCREEN That Little Tent of Blue IT IS INTERESTING that two films should turn up at the same time, both about prison inmates who made names for themselves while in the penitentiary. Both...

The Screen (July 1962)

THE SCREEN Rat-a-tat-tat IF ONE Iooks closely at "Professor" Harold Hill, the super salesman played with such enthusiasm by Robert Preston in "The Music Man" (Warners), he will discover that the...

The Screen (July 1962)

THE SCREEN Of Human Bondage NOT SINCE the early thirties when Emil tannings was driven to the depths by Marlene Dietrich's provocative Lola Lola in "The Blue Angel," and poor Leslie Howard...

The Screen (July 1962)

THE SCREEN Tired Blood THE STUDIOS are releasing their usual package of summer comedies, most of them lightweight stuff. But this summer the tired plots seem lighter than ever; and while the...

The Screen (June 1962)

fall and redemption" in history. Having thus affirmed my orthodoxy I am free to inquire as to the pertinence of this quotation to the disarmament question. Again, we are debating among Mr. Molnar's...

The Screen (June 1962)

THE STAGE All Frame, No Portrait WHY IT SHOULD have taken three collaborators to make a dismal adaptation of James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is hard to understand; any...

The Screen (June 1962)

THE STAGE The Wrong War ONE OF the daily reviewers, a man who suffers bitterly from our refusal to create for him a new Golden Age of the Theater, or even a Silver one, recently rose to his full...

The Screen (June 1962)

ing backwards in that gesture whose only rivals are some of Chaplin's. Why not throw away the plot, the logic, the surrenders to expectation, and really have a ball? Whose approval do we have to...

The Screen (June 1962)

ties of Juan's slum Iife and are myths to which Juan and Clyde cannot relate successfully. Does he suggest that textbooks which faithfully mirror Juan's life be used? Does he suggest that values...

The Screen (May 1962)

THE SCREEN Terre Haute Was Never Like This IT COMES as no surprise that the family who take a trip to Europe in Walt Disney's new movie are more like the old Andy Hardy clan than the moderns...

The Screen (May 1962)

THE STAGE News From the Side Streets "THIS SIDE of Paradise" has two things in its favor: resourceful staging and the face of Paul Roebling. Together they don't come close to redeeming this...

The Screen (May 1962)

room which resists familiar intonations and colloquial gestures but which is not a high tale about the death of kings either. We are especially likely to get Rebecca West wrong. James Huneker's...

The Screen (May 1962)

THE SCREEN Hum a Hymn to Hera SOMETIMES it's rather difficult to tell what a film maker has in mind. While one may admire a movie's photography, acting and technique, one may be baffled by what...

The Screen (April 1962)

THE SCREEN And Doubting Thomas Too IT'S A PLEASURE for a movie reviewer to have a week like this in which there's a whole batch of films that don't concentrate on sex. The best of the lot is a...

The Screen (April 1962)

shoe routines, physics professors coaching football teams, sexpots quoting Kant. But the primary descent is from the condition of myth, or fable, that was once the musical's raison d'etre....

The Screen (April 1962)

THE SCREEN Planet, Planet, Burning Bright IT IS NOT too difficult to figure out why so many movie reviewers and the movie-going public are being taken in by an English film called "The Day the...

The Screen (March 1942)

odiable elements are worked through and burned away. The play is the recovery of a childlike vision of American origins and one strain of our persisting reality, the child having been helped to see...

The Screen (March 1962)

Those truths have nowhere been better stated than in the preface to the play, and nowhere more succinctly there than in the letter Shaw quotes from a Catholic priest. "In your play," the man...

The Screen (March 1962)

Elks lodge putting on "Macbeth." As the play goes along, lump by lump, we do not even have the advantage of clear speech, which is of course what English productions are never supposed to fail...

The Screen (March 1962)

If we could get past this interpersonal bind in which Mr. Molnar has chosen to strap us, genuine problems would emerge. I think that we must retain our commitment to the organic relationship of...

The Screen (March 1962)

who gives to the role of Mrs. Moore all the exactness and finely arrived at ambiguity of which she is capable, and it also has Eric Portman and Zia Mohyeddan, a young Pakistani actor who does as...

The Screen (February 1962)

B: And comedy, too. About drama as enhancement, revelation, celebration, instruction in mystery and in the nature of community. A: What a mouthful! And drama today is . . .? B: On Broadway, a...

The Screen (February 1962)

is one thing, but that my concern with the book was confined to its philosophical aspects, as Father Francoeur alleges, is quite another thing, and one which I must deny. The fact that in a...

The Screen (February 1962)

quality of epic speculative nonsense combined with humanistic alfirmation. But in the new works, perhaps because of their brevity, the weaknesses of this kind of imagination-its tendency to drown...

The Screen (February 1962)

THE STAGE A Master's Voice IT IS surely some sort of commentary on the condition of our theater that the most absorbing evening it is possible to spend in it these days is at "Brecht...

The Screen (January 1962)

primitive sensuality-acted with great gum-chewing, buttocks-wriggling, nasty elan by Bette Davis. But what has happened to him, and to the audience whose surrogate he is as Val or Brick or...

The Screen (January 1962)

exposed as the fabled wartime colonel, and ends it on the day of his separation from the RAF. The greater part of "Ross" is made up of flashbacks which depict the events of the war years in...

The Screen (January 1962)

told about it, and if we aren't we cannot be made so by being told about it. But of course the bourgeois theater, the theater of Theater Arts, Time and Marya Mannes, the serious bourgeois...

The Screen (January 1962)

THE STAGE Blanket Coverage ONE ISN~r obliged to review everything, especially since there are some plays about which there seems nothing useful to say. But there are others which simply slip...

The Screen (December 1961)

metaphysical anguish. We are all addicts of one kind or another, the play said when it wasn't being a sociological broadside, and we all have a Cowboy for whom we wait. What does "The Apple"...

The Screen (December 1961)

weddings. That the bride and groom are clearly not made for each other becomes at some point an intolerable observation to have to make, and we seize upon any chance to let the ceremony take...

The Screen (December 1961)

or, conversely, when a bit too much sheer physicality is introduced as compensation or disguise for what has not found adequate expression elsewhere. But for the most part "A Man for All Seasons"...

The Screen (December 1961)

Do you have a friend or relative who would enjoy twelve hundred pages of the kind of writing The Commonweal presents each week , . . forthright editorial comment on a world in transition and...

The Screen (December 1961)

remark of the Lord's in evidence: "if fear is all the love you have for me . . ." And yet I don't think that the playwright is entirely to blame for the bemused embarrassment which is the final...

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sacrifice, to accept the fact of "dit~erent kinds of love" and be willing therefore to share the woman with her husband, in a pas de trois that they will dance to a hitherto unheard-of melody. A...

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trating attempts to block or evade the effects of good laws, such as fair employment laws, eventually these laws are obeyed. So will it be, I am convinced, if we impose legal sanctions to end...

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aware of foreign quality as they have not traditionally been. But these facts do not seem of very compelling interest to the ordinary consumer, and the representatives of labor, who ought to be...

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THE SCREEN NEVER HIT A WOMAN WITH A CHILD W ORDSWORTH wrote "Intimations of Immortality" some hundred and fifty years ago. Now a line from his ode turns up as the title of a movie about the...

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THE SCREEN THIS IS NEW YORK? C AUSE FOR rejoicing[ It's not every day that a movie version of a theatrical musical play is better than the original. But such is the case with "West Side Story,"...

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THE SCREEN ASTRONUTS ALTHOUGH made last year, "Man in the Moon" is as timely as the headlines about Alan Shepard, Jr. It was inevitable that the British, who have proved themselves master kidders...

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THE SCREEN ANGRY YOUNG BLACK MAN WHAT WITH the angry young men still blasting away and the popularity of the French "Black Orpheus," it isn't surprising that we now have on our screens several...

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THE SCREEN THE SEACOAST OF BOHEMIA A MERICAN moviegoers have to be reminded every now and then that not all foreign films are irresistibly wonderful. As if to prove the point, two new movies from...

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be histrionic; they have too stern a sense of duty." Yet it was just such faces and such souls that roiled in distress at Boucicault's gaslit vision of absolute good besieged by evil incarnate. And...

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Like Prometheus he must, frequently at the cost of great suffering, dissipate the magic of illusion—always the great enemy of truth—and reveal the true face of mystery. This parallel was suggested...

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THE SCREEN SPOTS BEFORE YOUR EYES I N VIEW OF all the fuss about censorship, movie classification and the "adult-films-mean-dirtyfilms" argument, it is good to be able to report that three new...

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THE SCREEN DRIVE A MAN TO DRINK A UDIENCES who tend to identify closely or feel too much empathy for the leading characters in a movie are going to get awfully thirsty as they watch a couple of...

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It is related of the great Cuchulain that he once, when very angry, was placed in a vat of water to calm him. The water immediately turned to steam, and the wood of the vat split. He was then put in...

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THE SCREEN ROSINANTE TO THE ROAD AGAIN F. j VEN THE moviegoer who doesn't attend foreign films very often has cause to be grateful for their appearance on our screens. They tend to pep up the...

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THE SCREEN LIFE WITH FATHER IF EVER a film started out on the wrong foot for me it is "Home Is the Hero," an import from Ireland that opens with a scene in a pub filled with local characters being...

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does not mean that a university becomes part of a Church. A university is directly engaged in an intellectual, not an apostolic or confessional, work. As in the political and social order, Catholics...

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THE SCREEN DROP THAT NAME A S THE MOVIE capital of the world, Hollywood may be on the skids, but it really doesn't have to advertise itself in one movie as blatantly as it does in "Pepe" to...

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THE SCREEN A WORLD THEY NEVER MADE I T IS INTERESTING that only one of four recently released films about young people is set in the present. All four illustrate, however, some of the conflicts...

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THE SCREEN I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT N OW THAT the campaign speeches and voting are well over, the movie reviewer can do a little campaigning and voting on his own by selecting his Best Ten. This...

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THE SCREEN OUT OF TUNE T HE BRITISH have a way of coming up with themes that American films seldom touch, and frequently these off-beat movies attract American audiences and even goad Hollywood...

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THE SCREEN FROM TOBAGO TO BROBDINGNAG F 4VERY NOW and then the studios display enough common sense, along with their corn mercial perspicacity, to make the moviegoer willing to forgive them...

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THE SCREEN SHALOM! A FEW DAYS after I saw "Exodus," I read newspaper accounts of renewed U.S. efforts to persuade Israel and the Arab States to end their twelve-year-old dispute or at least come...

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THE SCREEN "YOU'LL COME A-WALTZING WITH ME" S ELDOM does a movie capture the true spirit of family so well as "The Sundowners" has. This is not just a togetherness sort of thing, although goodness...

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THE SCREEN FISH OR FOWL? M OVIE PRODUCERS could save themselves a lot of grief if they'd decide where they're going before they start on a film. And sometimes it might even help if they'd have...

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ing to the ideological grammar of what I call, in a private lexicon, the we-are-all-murderers school, and their central figures are all, as Mr. Jerry Tallmer most correctly and penetratingly...

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THE SCREEN BREATHES THERE THE MAN IT IS a pleasure to report that the latest of the Rossellini films to be shown in this country is in a class with his famous war movies, "Open City" and "Paisan."...

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THE SCREEN THAT'S HOW THE BAWDY BALL BOUNCES T HREE NEW movies seem to go out of their way to be in "Adults Only" categories. No one of the movies is particularly outstanding, but all three have...

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THE SCREEN THAT OLD TIME RELIGION F ROM the advertisements for "Inherit the Wind," one might think the film was about monkeyshines. It isn't. Although the picture, which is a thinly-disguised...

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THE SCREEN THE TWENTY-FOURTH MILLION I T'S NOT every month, thank goodness, in which our screens are blasted by two movies costing twelve million dollars each. Besides their excessive length (both...

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THE SCREEN NOT IN OUR STARS I N TELLING the story of rocket-expert Wernher von Braun, the makers of "I Aim at the Stars" had more problems than could be solved satisfactorily in one movie. Their...

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THE SCREEN WHISTLING IN THE DARK IN SPITE OF their blatantly masculine opening scenes, most of William Inge's plays wind up on the sentimental and feminine side; and love, usually in the shape of...

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THE SCREEN CASTING SHADOWS BEFORE F j YEN THOUGH he displays extraordinary determination and courage, the hero of "Sunrise at Campobello" is not just another movie hero. He is Franklin...

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THE SCREEN KINDLY KILLER W AR films can no longer be just about fighting or the dangers of the cruel sea or about monotony in the trenches; they have to have an angle that exposes their starry...

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THE SCREEN QUIPS AND ,CRANKS, AND WANTON WILES T HERE HAVE been so many stories about Marilyn Monroe and her hard work, about Yves Montand and his charm, about their interest in each other, and...

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THE SCREEN BENT TWIGS T HERE HAVE been many Hollywood movies lately about young people and the problem confronting them while growing up, but Americans are not alone in developing the...

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modities most accessible to those on a West German some black-and-white photography of the industrial budget, since our West German mark is exchanged for town, the coal-mining...

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THE SCREEN LOOKING BEFORE AND AFTER T HE SUMMER whizzes by; and before its plethora of movie releases is gone and forgotten, it might be well to cover a few of the films that got lost in the...

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THE SCREEN SEE NAPLES AND DIE C LARK GABLE and Sophia Loren may be the stars of "It Started in Naples," but the film's greatest asset is its magnificent scenery. Using VistaVision and...

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joke or preaching a sermon, Jean Simmons is equally THE...

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THE SCREEN THE SKIMMED SURFACE p ERHAPS THE faults of most movie biographies lie in the cinematic medium itself. For movie biographies, no matter how well made, seem to have an almost...

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and his sink-or-swim plan for getting ahead and be- THE SCREEN coming an executive is to lend...

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THE SCREEN REVELS NOW ARE ENDED F OREIGN FILMS continue to liven our screens and, even when they're not first-rate, stimulate American audiences and American movie makers. These imports are...

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and directed by James Clavell, who also wrote the THE SCREEN script with Daniel...

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THE SCREEN THE PAST IS NOW T HE REALITY and the dream, yesteryear and today, and the uncertain remembrance of things past are intermingled in "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" so skillfully that the movie...

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THE SC,REEN GLADIOLA p ERHAPS the most remarkable thing about Walt Disney's excellent production of "Pollyanna" is that he has made Eleanor H. Porter's saccharine novel of some haft century ago...

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THE SCREEN ODD MAN IN p ETER SELLERS, the English comedian who was so funny and ubiquitous with his three roles in "The Mouse That Roared," now turns up in three more roles, and once again he...

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If we are going to issue calls for vision then I wish these two in their derring-do are Finlay Currie, Ber- someone would call for a vision which would help the nard Lee, Niall MacGinnis,...

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THE SCREEN "THEN I SAW THE CONGO" A LTHOUGH it presents a picture of Africa that is completely different from that shown in Lionel Rogosin's shattering fictional-documentary, "Come Back,...

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THE SCREEN people who lead unnice, unhappy, sexy lives, this is your dish of tea. ENCROACHING JUNGLE D ESCRIBED as "London's first adult musical," the stage hit "Expresso Bongo" has now...

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THE SCREEN TAKING APARTHEID APART A S TIMELY as anything on our screens today is "Come Back, Africa," a fictional-documentary film made in the Union of South Africa by Lionel Rogosin, the...

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THE STAGE THE TONE OF TIME ~ I COULD not love thee, dear, so much, loved 1 I not money more." The voice is singular-unalterably Shavian--and its timbre has been pungently registered in the...

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THE SCREEN LISTEN TO THE HEART Yom Kippur. At times "Conspiracy of Hearts" may seem to be a conspiracy against your tear ducts, but even this fact can't blur the film's well-made points about...

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writing. His duet for the competing ecclesiastics, with THE STAGE madrigal overtones, is...

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O NE OF THE signs of a master is that he has no posterity, or at any rate no legitimate offspring. Racine marks the summit of French classic tragedy. He also marks its end. His work could not be...

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THE SCREEN UNDER A WIDE AND STARRY SKY A LTHOUGH "Home from the Hill" can't make up its mind whether it wants to be a soap opera about a long-suffering family or a serious study of two...

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THE SCREEN AH, SWEET MYSTERY M ICHAEL TODD, JR., following in his father's footsteps, has turned out a film that is more notable for its showmanship and enter- tainment values than for its...

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fifty-eight, and the days of the heroes is over this thirty-five years past. Long over, finished and done with. The I.R.A. and the War of Independence are as dead as the Charleston." Young Brendan,...

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III THE DINNER PARTY a novel by Claude Mauriae winner of the Prix Medicis "A brilliant split-level novel a Paris dinner party's unspoken thoughts and memories paralleled against the audible...

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THE SCREEN WET WEEK p RODUCEP, S Andrew and Virginia Stone, who turn out tense movie thrillers and like to make them on location to add to the realism and thrills, have reached the ultimate in...

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THE SCREEN OUR MEN IN SATIRE G OOD satirical movies are few and far between, so the sudden appearance of three of them on our screens is all the more welcome. Although made in different...

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humane occasion which spoke in a personal voice, an event of individuality and imperfection not sealed in that dreadful pliofilm of efficient anonymity with which all experience, from broccoli au...

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For the Second Term CLASSROOM orders, 10 or more copies of The Commonweal, to be mailed in one pack- age, may be entered for any number of weeks at 13~ a copy. A free copy is added for instructor...

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THE STAGE THE MORAL MOTIF THE DECOR Mr. Will Steven Armstrong has de- signed for "The Andersonville Trial wspectral, musty, a courtroom full of remembered hates and washed in ambiguous light--is...

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THE SCREEN WINTER POTPOURRI T HE MOVIE studios, hoping to catch the Christmas trade, have a way of rushing in at the year's end with a lot of new films. This year was no exception. Some deserve...

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THE SCREEN TIME, YOU OLD GYPSY MAN I T WASN'T the best cinema year or the worst, but thank goodness for the good foreign films that helped to spruce up American screens. I find in listing...

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THE SCREEN THE VOICE OF THE TURTLES A NYONE familiar with Tennessee Williams' plays, or the movies made from them, knows that they usually involve strong subject matter. Williams likes to drop a...

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THE SCREEN THERE'S STILL TIME, BROTHER W ITHOUT ANY doubt the year's scariest film is 'On the Beach," Stanley Kramer's frighten- ing and expertly made opus about the end of the world. It...

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THE SCREEN OTHER FACES, OTHER CLIMES S ERGEI EISENSTEIN, the Russian director who proved with movies like "Potemkin," "Ten Days That Shook the World" and "Alexander Nevsky" that he was one of...

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ceives of as the dangerous threat on the part of the West--and now also of the East--to destroy his leader and, with him, any chance of greater Arab unity. So far as I can tell, Ahmad is no longer...

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THE STAGE IMAGES N OTHING dominates so intensely in theater art as the image, persuading us--before words, conceptions, patterns~to the reality of its glamour, its high suffering or lucidity of...

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nificent nymphet" of Mr. Lahr's fancies? Or this blackout image proposed to me by a friend; the drawing room of the White House in stately readiness, the social cream curdling with anticipation:...

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The Mermaid has been built by public subscription, funds being forthcoming from brokers, shipping com- panies, insurance corporations, underwriters and other groups of hard-faced men, and not least...

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THE SCREEN BANNER WITH A STRANGE DEVICE H EROISM AND the reverse of heroism provide the themes of several new movies, none of which comes up with final answers but all of which handle their...

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THE SCREEN ASK ANY GIRL OR BOY I N JUNE, "Ask Any Girl" brought Shirley Mac- Laine to New York as a career girl looking for a job or a husband or both. The film was a bright bit of froth that...

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and that "most costive of villains" (Shaw again), Don Johnmmove, in the fallibility of their vanity and love, through a chequered maze of truth and delusion. They are seen, neither as psychological...

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bears too heavily on him, cheerfulness--as it did with the failed philosopher--keeps breaking in. The consequence of all this is a delight as impressive as it is humane and rare: sophisticated,...

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TRINITY COLLEGE INCORPORATED IN 1897 WASHINGTON, D. C. A Catholic Institution for the Higher Education of Women Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. For particulars address the...

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ed with the waterfalls and the river) that a coherence of outline, almost of scene, is maintained. But in the fourth book of the same poem, the poet has pressed the method to its extreme of...

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without any violent pushes from the state. The perennial anti-Catholic campaign was toned down considerably after Gomulka's steps toward reconciliation with the Church in Poland made the...

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THE SCREEN SUMMER ROUNDUP H ERE'S AN end-of-summer sale with brief comments on several of the current films. As might be expected during the vacation season, films for young folk and adults...

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an indispensable element of argumentation--a radical justification of suicide. This lack alone indicates that in fact we deal here with life philosophy in its most vulgar and least critical form....

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THE SCREEN DECEMBER AND SEPTEMBER SONGS I T ISN'T LIKELY that the film makers in their search for material will turn to those novels by Virginia Wooif in which the passage of time is...

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THE SCREEN NUNS FRET NOT N O DOUBT many a nun before and after Wordsworth fretted at her "convent's narrow room." "The Nun's Story" tells of such a nun. Although it never makes clear what...

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THE SCREEN NO BLOOM IN DUBLIN T HE IRISH, always an unpredictable race, are the subject of "Shake Hands with the Devil," an American film made in Ireland. It deals with the unpredictability of...

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desk it was, in that big house in Nyack. I knew there was a chance she never even read my letters. Probably the only one who saw my letters was her secretary, who had answered one of them...

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THE SCREEN SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD L EWIS MILESTONE, who directed the great anti-war war film "All Quiet on the Western Front," has now come up with another fine war movie: "Pork Chop...

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should be familiar. Answering that question is one of the ways one can discover what turns out to be natural law precepts. There are few differences between the "long pull positivist" and the...

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THE SCREEN NEVER A DULL MOMENT W ITHOUT STRESSING the sensational, "Crime and Punishment, U.S.A." provides an exercise in crime and detection. The film also provides a game for readers of...

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THE SCREEN BREAKDOWN ON THE MAIN LINE A UDIENCES watching "The Young Philadelphians' are expected to believe, along with the middle-aged and older members of Main Line society in this movie,...

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THE SCREEN GET ALONG LITTLE DOGIE S INCE HOLLYWOOD has made more westerns than any other type of picture, the producers naturally consider them their stock-in-trade. Recently, however, with...

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THE SCREEN NO VIEW, NO ROOM V ITTORIO DE SICA'S "The Roof," made several years ago but only now released in this country, has the same theme as "The Eighth Day of the Week." The main...

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panic before the marriage project yet its full symbolic, as to be distinguished from realistic, content. The performances of their elders have a great restraint and authority. Mr. John...

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THE SCREEN HAVE CAMERA, WILL TRAVEL W HILE INTERNATIONAL film making and the widely-traveled camera sound like good ideas, the films themselves do not always come up to expectations. Two new...

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side--that the application of such pressure to the stuffs of experience and art may be the solvent to release our theater from the impasse of "realism" in which it has lately seemed to languish....

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Mr. Farley Granger expressed a total indifference to Miss Austen's sense of life in any issue but the matter at hand. (Such are the intensifies of the theater mind.) Unfortunately, the results...

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The College of St. Catherine St. Patti Minnesota A Catholic Liberal Arts College for Women Conducted by "the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ST. JOSEPH,...

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THE SCREEN SIGNIFYING SOMETHING IT WOULD BE interesting to know what William Faulkner thinks of the movie made from his 1929 novel, The Sound and the Fury, but not particularly significant. The...

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651 THE SCREEN IN THE REIGN OF ALPHONSE I AFTER THE final scenes of "Al Capone," showing the infamous gangster being maltreated by fellow inmates at Alcatraz, viewers will admit they've seen...

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THE SCREEN NEVER STEAL ANYTHING RADIOACTIVE THAT YOU don't have to have a million dollars to make a good movie is evidenced by a couple of quickie-films turned out by Irving Lerner, an experienced...

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THE SCREEN SHARPER THAN A SERPENT'S TOOTH SOPHIA LOREN and Anthony Quinn love the children who are theirs in "The Black Orchid," but find they are often a pain in the neck. Miss Loren plays a...

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THE SCREEN HOW MELO WAS MY DRAMA ALTHOUGH "Night of the Quarter Moon" takes a commendably firm stand against racial bigotry, the film is really no more than a hopped-up melodrama. Even so, the...

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THE SCREEN WATCH ON THE GANGES THIS IS a week for films that both oldsters and youngsters will like. From India has come "Aparajito" ("The Unvanquished"), a sequel to last year's successful...

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THE SCREEN as a severe warning against sending a boy to do a psychiatrist's job. THE PITY OF IT ALL I T IS UNFORTUNATE ~at Dore Schary's first independent production is Lonelyhearts,...

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THE SCREEN NO BANG, NO WHIMPER THIS WEEK brings several tries, all of which are scaled to adult audiences and have various assets, but none of which quite makes the grade. Producers Martin...

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THE SCREEN WAR IS MANY THINGS THE CYCLE of war films continues with a generous quota of imports, most of which are more concerned with factual stories and off-beat episodes than with the...

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439 THE SCREEN WALK, DON'T RUN WHILE WATCHING the first half of "Some Came Running," the lengthy movie made from James Jones' 1,266-page novel, I wondered why anyone thought this was movie...

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THE SCREEN them. "The Doctor's Dilemma" is indeed a treat not to be missed. BRIGHT BRITISH BRACERS THE BRITISH have started the year right by sending over several movies that are worth...

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THE SCREEN EGGS IN ONE BASKET THEN suddenly it's the end of the year; and reviewers go scurrying to their typewriters to name their ten best. That number ten is rather arbitrary; but the custom...

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THE SCREEN MANY THINGS TO MANY PEOPLE THE UNPREDICTABLE French, who have been sending over a plethora of mystery thrillers and racy Brigitte Bardot items, are now represented on our screens...

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THE SCREEN LA JOIE DE VIVRE DE MA TANTE I HAVE BEEN in love with Rosalind Russell for so long it isn't funny, so anything I have to say about her new movie is more than a little prejudiced. I...

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316 THE SCREEN THE LONELY ONES TERENCE Rattigan's two short stage plays, which provided a full evening of adult entertainment as "Separate Tables," now provide a field day for actors...

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THE SCREEN BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD ALTHOUGH "I Want To Live!" starts out as a sensational thriller about a prostitute whose unsavory career lands her in prison several times, it soon becomes...

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THE SCREEN ONE TOUCH OF GENIUS VIEWERS' reactions to "The Horse's Mouth" will depend to a great extent on how they feel about geniuses. In telling the story of Gulley Jimson, the ...

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231 THE SCREEN NO VINE-COVERED COTTAGES BECAUSE ITS distressing story is told entirely from the woman's point of view, "Home Before Dark" may be classed as a woman's picture; but it certainly...

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THE SCREEN LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES WHEN I READ the recent Air Force report on the type of gloves best suited to button pushing, all I could think of was Jacques Tati's film, "My Uncle, Mr....

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THE SCREEN ABLE FABLES JOHN FORD has made out of "The Last Hurrah," a fascinating fable about an aging Irish-American mayor in a New England city who's a cross between a modern Robin Hood and...

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THE SCREEN BILLIARD BALLS AND PAPERWEIGHTS ALL THE ingredients and possibilities for a good picture are in "The Roots of Heaven," but somehow it is a disappointment. Based on Romain Gary's novel,...

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THE SCREEN BOO, YOU PRETTY BLOB AN ASSORTMENT of horror and science-fiction films are turning up as a Halloween spree. None is likely to compete with more thoughtful current movies. The most...

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THE SCREEN THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD FILM-MAKERS have many ways of looking at war. Three current movies, although by no means all-inclusive, illustrate three different...

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THE SCREEN FAUSTUS AT THE BAT IF THERE'S any one department in which movies are usually weak it's fantasy. Somehow flights of fancy and light moods vanish before cinema's realistic camera; so...

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THE SCREEN FEUDIN' IS FUTILE PRACTICALLY everything about "The Big Country" is big: its gorgeous color photography of the great Southwest spreads across a wide screen; its star-crowded...

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THE SCREEN ANCIENT MARINER IF EVER A film caught the flavor of a Hemingway work it is "The Old Man and the Sea." The picture proved to be difficult and very expensive to make, but Producer...

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THE SCREEN THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY N ' O MATTER how one may feel about the frequently sensational emphasis on sex in Tennessee Williams' plays, one has to admit that Williams states well,...

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THE SCREEN DANDY DANNY C HARM is hard to define, but Danny Kaye certainly has it in "Me and the Colonel." And the picture, a comedy-drama without the songs and musical numbers that usually...

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THE SCREEN HOME IS THE HUNTER S OMETIMES movies don't turn out as their producers intended. Dick Powell, who produced and directed "The Hunters," undoubtedly meant it to pay tribute to the...

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THE SCREEN BARDEM ON BOREDOM T HAT FINE SPANISH director, Juan A. Bardem, whose film, "The Lovemaker," gave serious audiences something to think about last spring, has come up with another film...

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No account, however fragmentary, of Ioneseo's theatre may omit notice of the incendiary power of his humor, a humor with roots in that satanism which Baudelaire held to be the soil of laughter....

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statement that two and two make four is in the field of mathematics. Our Extension Department very early organized the people to study the possibility and the significance of establishing...

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healthy intergroup relations. The progress we have made must not blind us to the need for further progress. But we must also be realistically aware of the impediments to further...

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THE SCREEN WON'T YOU STEP INTO MY PARLOR? E VER SINCE I saw the preview of "The Fly" I have examined every fly that swoops into my apartment to see if it has the face and left hand of a man, so...

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THE SCREEN UNIFORM IN UNIFORM W HEN MOVIEMAKERS hit on a lucrative cycle, they are likely to run it to the ground. There have been some interesting and provocative war movies this year ("The...

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understand ever more deeply the infinite goodness of his Creator." Mr. Lewis, as a writer of "modem fairy tales for grownups" (so he subtitles That Hidden Strength) can indulge in monolithic...

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THE SCREEN FUN IN ENGLAND N 'ORMAN KRASNA'S stage play "Kind Sir" was a bit of fluff made more or less entertaining by a first-rate cast, headed by Mary Martin and Charles Boyer. The movie...

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THE SCREEN BIRTH WITHOUT TEARS F OR MANY YEARS the movies suggested childbirth scenes by calling for "boiling water--lots of it," until it finally became a clich6. Nowadays films incline to...

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Wstates--with one inspector each? How many inspections can be made by Maine, Arizona, Oklahoma, Utah and Nevada--with two investigators each? How thin can Tennessee spread its three inspectors?...

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THE SCREEN THE 5:36 TO VALHALLA I T IS HARD to say whether "The Vikings" will appeal more to adults or to youngsters. Since it's mainly about ninth-century Northmen who pillaged and plundered...

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"He is," as Mr. Peacock justly puts it, "a fortuitous visitor in our sky, shedding a brilliant and decorative lustre, but no fertilizing warmth." The last infirmity of a theater such as Synge's...

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THE SCREEN BEAMISH BOY W ILL STOCKDALE, whose exploits in the peacetime Air Force delighted readers of Mac Hyman's book and viewers of Ira Levin's play, is now on hand to win more admirers in...

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permitted to set their rates low enough to win back traffic they have lost to these competitors. In short, the railroads want the I.C.C. to consider each rate request on its own merits rather...

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against "the black government" and "the priests." The writer nodded and asked him whether he was a Catholic. The driver looked surprised at this strange foreigner and replied "naturally." He...

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ranged a series of stately tableaux through which he wanders, as Moses, with insistent eloquence. In his dual task, Mr. Quayle seems to have no large or vital ideas about "The Firstborn"; he...

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his hat back with his thumb, he pushed too far and the hat fell off? What would happen? Nothing. The scene would be refilmed. The hero can't lose. But what of the viewer? What charge of anxiety...

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THE SCREEN WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE I 'M NOT SURE why I am so lethargic about the movie version of "Marjorie Morningstar.' Milton Sperling has given his film a good production with some nice...

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THE SCREEN NO BIZ LIKE SHOW BIZ S TAGE-STRUCK girl comes to New York, struggles for recognition and suddenly rises to the heights when the star walks out on a show and she takes over the...

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THE STAGE THIEVES' CARNIVAL T HE SINGULARITY of Edwin Juspas Mayer's "Children of Darkness," to which Mr. Jose Quintero and the Circle in the Square have lately turned their attention, lies in...

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and solitary; so curiously abstract yet fraught with peril, as of one traveling a road lit only by the indistinguishable torches of grace and damnation. (At Theatre 74, 334 East 74th...

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amine old themes in a fresh way. One can imagine a professor at the University of Paris in the thirteenth century reading the De Ente et Essentia and raising similar complaints about...

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wider than her recent appearances would ~seem to suggest. It would be lamentable if so supple, brilliant and responsible an American talent were to be ,swathed in _9 e mantle of perpetual...

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out of all proportion ,to .their numbers, it is a waning one. The party's organization and actual membership in Bri.fish industry bear ,no eompa~ri, son with what ~ey were ,a few years...

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THE SCRE, EN its themes are presented thoughtfully and in a manner to give thinking audiences greater understanding. DESIRE, DESIRE EVERYWHERE T WO NEW MOVIES which stem from the works of...

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pleasure, it is publicly well thought of; the very refusal of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (at the Music Box) to move beyond the cautious immediate, to look remotely like anything...

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achieving not only a fine translation of reality in terms o[ ~he a~tor's self, but some further comment on, or enhancement of Jr. There would have to be, that is, the distillation of a pietic...

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taken pains to secure local citizenship to insure their continued acceptance. Even with this, their future security, as in Indonesia, is by no means guaranteed. To understand this trend, one must...

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performance, is a sulky lawyer smashed about by the rancors of a divorce; the girl is a hybrid of Bronx, ballet and .bedlam---one of those tartars who belt you as you aim for a seat in the...

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enlisted in the navy they had never .been able to earn enough to buy adequate food and clothing. Asked whether they feared to return to Spain, all five answered affirmatively. They maintained...

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luctan,t maiden, the drunken servant, the interfering vice. The strength of the play lies, however, in the fact that, even while they retain the force of philosophical generalization, the...

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Maritain's thought is too rich to encompass in a brief article. I ,have been able to :allude only to some of the major themes. His habitual point of view fidelity to Catholic and Thomistic...

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a vaudeville idea of rusticity, which is vulgar when it is not patronizing, and which, if it reflects a personal conception, is a serious comment on Miss Harris' sensibility; if she has adopted...

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THE STAGE THE FIELD OF VANITY W YCHERLY'S randy farce of instinct, "The Country Wife," has held its place in the English repertory for very little short of three centuries: a security of grasp...

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diversity of the tribes and tongues and nations which make up the family of man. Communication, even at the simplest level, remains a serious problem. But beyond the differences of language are...

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crated by the Protestant insistence on faith alone and by the Protestant rejection of the sacramental character of the universe. The deadly enemy of the peasant; the aristocrat; the soldier; r~O...

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"The Gift of the Magi" and Henry van Dyke's "The Other Wise Man," are authentic classics, and Owen Wister and Frank Norris have a good tale apiece. In England the Times" annual Christmas stories...

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sion. This is a weakness in the AFL-CIO constitution. But this being so, it must take effective action or stand condemned as either 1) cowardly, or 2) tolerant of corruption, or 3) both. By...

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THE SCREEN DON'T TAKE THE FISH—OR THE SQUIRREL COMMERCIAL air lines may not be too happy about "Zero Hour!" but thrill-seeking audiences should find it to their liking. Its plot, about a group of...

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is Mr. Osborne "taken in" by the figure of Jimmy Porter? what is the quality of creative belief he is committed to invest in him? I stand with Mr. Harold Clurman, who has described Porter acutely as...

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all hung with black and gold silk on a crescent of lawn, the girls and men all moths in a blue light. It is simple for an American to patronize this rage and this thirt, for exclusiveness is not...

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THE STAGE THE SCREEN MR. USTINOV, LTD. M R. PETER USTINOV takes his pleasure in dotty assaults, often lapidary and insouciant, sometimes scrappy or common, on a doctrinaire reality. He has...

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he anticipates future criticism of his own work. In his discussions of poetic drama, he has not spared what could be said against his own experiments in that direction. It is significant that...

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tragic theatre is indisputable. Indeed, she seems to me, with Miss Siobhan McKenna, the only other actress on the English-speaking stage who might drive Phaedra and Clytemnestra into actuality....

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THE STAGE DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS T HE VISION of Nathanael West's "Miss Lonelyhearts" commands by its hallucinatory stillness that crawling sense, as in a Breugel pastoral, of violence,...

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THE SCREEN PORTER'S PITTER PATTER THE LITERARY DEVICE of telling the same story in several different versions colored by the various tellers works out so well in the movies that I'm...

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in Roumania; almost so in Latvia, Lithuania, Albania, China, North Korea, and among Latin Catholic Roumanians. In the remaining satellites and in Yugoslavia, the Church has been gravely...

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THE SCREEN THE BIOGRAPHY BIT E NTERFAINERS AND JOURNALISTS, who have been quick to razz the advertising boys for their ball-bouncing lingo, deserve a little xJdding themselves these days for...

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THE SCREEN IS THIS TRIP NECESSARY? MOVIES ARE often magic carpets that transport audiences to all parts of the globe. But, inevitably, one begins to wonder if the pleasures of this kind of...

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THE SCREEN NO CHOO-CHOO TO CHATTANOOGA ANOTHER OF THOSE fine westerns on the aman-must-stand-up theme is to be found in "3:10 to Yuma." It is set in Arizonia in the midst of a drought,...

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THE SCREEN THOSE CRAZY MIXED-UP KIDS GERTRUDE STEIN is usually given credit for having named "the lost generation," those crazy mixed-up post-World War I kids who lived abroad so much, drank so...

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THE SCREEN CRUSOE IN CHAINS WITHOUT depreciating good American movies, it must be admitted that foreign films have a way of making American audiences sit up and take notice. Three new imports from...

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THE SCREEN WILL SUCCESS ROCK THE SPOILERS? IN "WILL Success Spoil Rock Hunter?" Jayne Mansefield plays a modern femme fatale, one of Hollywood's busty, blond babes who is not half as dumb as...

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THE SCREEN THIS EARTH, THIS REALM, THIS ENGLAND ANYONE WHO has been faithful to his television set through the years can tell you that the English make good films (like "Richard III," "Brief...

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THE SCREEN AFTER THE MOMENT OF GREATNESS IN SPITE OF its not being as good as Irwin Shaw's original short story, "Tip on a Dead Jockey" is commendable and definitely a movie to be...

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THE SCREEN LIFE CAN BE BEAUTIFUL PERHAPS it was a mistake for Producer Jerry Wald to call his movie "An Affair To Remember"—because what we remember is that the last time this film turned up...

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THE SCREEN ARISE AND GO NOW JOHN FORD loves his Ireland with a love that carries over into his work. His films are likely to flow with sentiment without wallowing in it—because he can point...

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THE SCREEN AGE OF THE VACUUM IF FILMS MUST be made about dope addiction (and it was inevitable that there would be a follow-up to "The Man with the Golden Arm" and "Monkey on My Back"), it is...

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THE SCREEN WHAT ARE HEROES, PROPHETS, MEN? THE WORDS "epic" and "colossal" were used so loosely and often by Hollywood in the old days that they fell into disfavor and almost lost their...

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THE SCREEN BIG CITY BLUES IT WOULD ALMOST seem that the movie makers were conspiring with the heat wave to drive city dwellers into the country. Four new films consider various aspects of city...

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THE SCREEN GO TO THE MOVIES AND SEE THE WORLD IT IS NOT hard to understand why Darryl F. Zan-uck's production of "Island in the Sun" is having difficulty in the South. This is perhaps the most...

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THE SCREEN SOMEBODY'S ALWAYS CHASING SOMEBODY THE ENGLISH have sent over a crime-and-detection movie that is just about the best escapist fare on our screens these days. Addicts of detective...

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277 THE SCREEN PIED PIPER OF PIGGOTT ELIA KAZAN'S films rarely fail to stir up a lively controversy. And his newest opus, "A Face in the Crowd," for which Budd Schulberg wrote the script...

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THE SCREEN SMALL FAVORS MOVIEGOERS anxious to see some new product in the theaters might be thankful this week for small favors. None of the three new comedies turning up on our screens is a...

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THE SCREEN HE LAUGHS LAST WHO LAUGHS LAST THE THREE COMEDIES reviewed this week, although quite dissimilar, all have two points in common: they try desperately hard to be funny and they dwell...

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THE SCREEN THE GREEKS HAD A WORD FOR IT THIS WEEK'S new films concentrate pretty heavily on women who know where they're going. Even the Greeks, producers of few movies, have come up with an...

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caught in a rhythm of perpetual motion. We are again in Mr. Walter Kerr's debt for the single, infallible image he has given us of Mr. Bert Lahr as a bird dog: feet flat, eyes alert, nose poised,...

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THE SCREEN THE GLORY THAT IS GREECE CINEMASCOPE and De Luxe Color have seldom been used to better advantage than in "Boy on a Dolphin," an adventure movie set in present-day Greece, displayed in...

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THE SCREEN HOW STRANGE CAN ONE GET? CONCENTRATING on misbehavior in a military school, "The Strange One" is so realistic that it is painful and at times even revolting to watch. Youngsters are...

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THE SCREEN JUDICIAL AND PREJUDICIAL WHAT HAPPENS to a jury after all the evidence is in and the judge instructs them that a "guilty" verdict will bring a death sentence and a reasonable doubt...

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bachelor, who picks up a girl for the shy Abbott; but up in her room, Abbott realizes this is not the answer to his questions either, and he walks out on the angry #rl. Chayefsky concentrates on...

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16 THE SCREEN A PICTURE'S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS PHOTOGRAPHY is the subject of two extraordinarily good new films. In "Funny Face," Fred Astaire plays a photographer on Quality magazine, one...

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THE SCREEN ALL-AMERICAN IN THE 1949 remake of "Little Women" June Allyson made Jo a more typical American girl than Katharine Hepburn had done in the better version of 1933 or than Louisa May...

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THE SCREEN ODE TO THE WARRIOR THE JAPANESE, not to be outdone by other countries which make lengthy movie epics about man's fight for freedom, have turned up with "The Magnificent Seven," which...

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THE SCREEN WHERE MOSES STOOD EVEN THE disparagers of Cecil B. DeMille, those who insist that his movies through the years since 1913 have mainly glorified the bathtub in elaborate spectacles, will...

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THE SCREEN MAKING THEE LAUGH AND CRY THE CHARMING movie made from Jessamyn West's Friendly Persuasion may not send audiences running from the theater to join the Society of Friends, but it will...

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THE SCREEN BAD SEEDS MAKE BITTER FRUIT I F ONE could accept the main premise of "The Bad Seed" (that a child can inherit the tendency to kill) one would have to admit that the picture's little...

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THE SCREEN SEASONED WITH GALLIC I T WAS INEVITABLE that the foreign films, not to be outdone by Hollywood excursions into family life, would also remember mama, papa, and just about everyone...

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THE SCREEN LONG WAR I N THE OLD days so many movies were called colossal that the adjective lost meaning. Now it has to be dug up again as the word most fitting for "War and Peace," which was...

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THE SCREEN BRASH BOY BRAVES BUS A LTHOUGH the movie version of "Bus Stop" only vaguely resembles William Inge's original stage play, most of the changes are for the better. Scriptwriter George...

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THE SCREEN ONE MAN IN HIS TIME F OREIGN FILMS, even those not of the best, usually have some following in this country, and a couple of new releases, though not world-beaters, deserve...

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THE SCREEN PALE HORSE, BRIGHT RIDER IT IS not easy to recommend films for children, but "The Phantom Horse" is certainly worth a try. This handsomely-made Japanese movie (the first I've seen...

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THE SCREEN TWELVE O'CLOCK IS STILL HIGH STANLEY KRAMER'S "High Noon" did not exactly start it, but that excellent movie certainly spurred other producers on to making westerns with a message...

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THE SCREEN THE MALADY LINGERS ON ALTHOUGH Hollywood has been successful in converting TV plays into full-length movies, it is good to see the film industry tackle a couple of problem plots that...

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THE SCREEN PILGRIMS' PROGRESS THE ITALIANS have sent over so many middling films lately that one is likely to go overboard in welcoming a new import that is both beautiful and meaningful....

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THE SCREEN MR. ROBERTS RIDES AGAIN D URING World War II our screens had an abunance of films about ships and their courageous personnel; some of these movies were quite good, and varied in...

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THE SCREEN A STATELY PLEASURE-DOME AS WELCOME as a summer breeze are two new musical movies now brightening our screens. Charles Brackett's magnificent production of "The King and I" would be...

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THE SCREEN BAD BOY I N TELLING the story of young Rocky Graziano, "Somebody Up There Likes Me" makes no bones about the fact that he was a bad boy, a seemingly hopeless product of New York...

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THE SCREEN NO SAD SONGS FOR ME E DDY DUCHIN probably did have more ups and downs in his life than most people, but I doubt if his life was quite the soap opera the movies have made of it....

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THE SCREEN ADAMANT AHAB A DMIRERS of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, some of whom consider it the great American classic, are likely to be pleased and impressed with John Huston's film version of...

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THE SCREEN LIFE IS REAL, LIFE IS EARNEST I AM SURE that Richard Brooks, who directed the first-rate cast in "The Catered Affair," didn't realize what a sad movie he was making. It's...

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THE SCREEN LOOKING, LOOKING EVERYWHERE I N SPITE of its great length, John Ford's new picture, "The Searchers," is quite thin on plot. It is mainly concerned with a search by a...

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THE SCREEN DARING YOUNG MAN F ROM NOW on, whenever I hear "The Blue Danube" I shall probably think of "Trapeze" instead of what Strauss had in mind. Carol Reed's new movie uses the music with...

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THE SCREEN SAVE ME THE WALTZ NO DOUBT Gene Kelly had a brilliant idea when he decided to make an entire film in the dance medium; however, between the idea and the reality, between the...

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THE SCREEN A LITTLE LEARNING IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK, overimpressed in his recent films like ' The Trouble with Harry" and and "To Catch a Thief" with comedy, scenery and a large screen, returns in...

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THE SCREEN ONE THIRD OF A NATION BEING convinced that love is everything, the movies are busy these days spreading the gospel and have even borrowed a couple of plays from TV to prove their...

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THE SCREEN POOR BUTTERFLY SINCE THE singing and acting parts of a movie are not done at the same time, it is surprising that no one came up earlier with the bright idea that makes the new...

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THE SCREEN PECK UNDER A BUSHEL NOT HAVING The Man in the Gray Flan- read nel Suit, I don t know how closely Directorscript-writer Nunnally Johnson sticks to Sloan Wilson's novel; but as I...

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THE SCREEN ROYALTY IS AS ROYALTY DOES MOVIES have a way of stumbling over their own celluloid when they concentrate on great historical figures, especially royalty. The movie makers can never...

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THE SCREEN OPUS, OPERA p ERHAPS the most amazing thing about "The Last Ten Days" is that such a good film about Hitler and the clique surrounding him should .be made in the first decade after...

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THE SCREEN MALICE IN WONDERLAND F ORTUNATELY, at the springtime of the year, studios are releasing a flock of outdoor films, films w,hich have for their .s~ttings .the great open spaces which...

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THE SCREEN "TRUE LIFE I$ ONLY LOVE" A LTHOUGH I was first drawn to ",Lovers and Lollipops" by its wonderful fire, and the fact .that it was written, produced and directed by M~ris Engel and...

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THE SCREEN "HELL'S BLACK INTELLIGENCER'" p URISTS who think that Shakespeare can do no wrong may not be happy with Laurence Olivier's production of "Richard III." But audiences who believe the...

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THE SCREEN WHAT ARE PATTERNS FOR? T HIS WEEK brings two thoughtful films which provide both absorbing drama and stimulating argument. The first, "Patterns," succeeds not only in building up...

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THE SCREEN SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING NEW R ICHARD RODGERS and Oscar Hammerstein II, who have been reluctant to allow their stage shows to be turned in~ movies, can now relax. "Carousel" has...

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THE SCREEN WATERMELON AND HAM O N THE surface, "Picnic" is a comedy, a hilarious affair that sends audiences into gales of laughter as they watch the effect of a handsome and well-built bum...

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THE SCREEN KNIGHT INTO KAYE DANNY KAYE and Alec Guinness, who have stood the tests of time very well, stand them again in their new vehicles and provide some very merry screen moments. In "The...

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THE SCREEN WINNER TAKE ALL I WISH that scriptwriters Cyril Hume and Richard Maibaum, who expanded their excellent hourlong TV play, "Fearful Decision," into a fulllength movie, had not made...

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THE SCREEN VALENTINES FROM ABROAD M OVIE theaters as well as audiences are now welcoming films from other countries. The newest batch, though interesting to selective moviegoers, is...

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THE SCREEN HOW TO LAUNCH 1,000 SHIPS A FTER having seen "Tiger at the Gates," the modern French play that portrays Helen as a luscious dumb bunny and Hector as a wise Trojan trying desperately...

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THE SCREEN VARIOUS VIOLENCES I T'S A PLEASURE to see a prize-fight film in which there isn't a single fixed fight and ,the hero doesn't win a smash victory at the end by knocking his opponent...

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THE SCREEN THE EGO AND I IN TELLING the Lillian Roth story, "I'll Cry Tomorrow" has one great advantage over most movies dealing with people who become victims of drink or dope or some other...

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THE SCREEN IT AIN'T GONNA RAIN NO MORE T HIS remake of Louis Bromfield's once-popular novel, The Rains Came, has been produced by Frank Ross on such an elaborate and definitive scale that I...

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THE SCREEN SEE HOW THEY RUN A T the end of the year the reviewer can get as personal as he wants and choose the ten movies that he likes best. Nobody but nobody can push him into preferences;...

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THE SCREEN is caught in an unholy whirl of cause and effect. Sinatra's first-rate performance is well supported throughout by Eleanor Parker, somewhat miscast, as the wife whose villainy is hard...

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THE SCREEN MOURNING BECOMES MAGNANI S INCE "The Rose Tattoo" was written for Anna Magnani in the first place, and she could not play it on the stage, we are doubly fortunate in having her in...

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THE SCREEN ACHILLES' HEEL A LTHOUGH no one accuses Hollywood anymore of turning out only escapist films, audiences still welcome controversial, well-made movies from abroad. They have...

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THE SCREEN JENNIFER'S DOVE, JOAN'S BEE p ERHAPS the strangest thing in cotmection with "Good Morning, Miss Dove" is that American film makers, after the successful English production of...

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THE SCREEN PALANCE IN THE PALACE PARLOR YOU probably won't believe a single scene in "The Big Knife," but neither, if you have any interest in theatrical flair, will you be able to tear...

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THE SCREEN DECEMBER IN DECEMBER T HE great Italian director, Vittorio De Sica, takes his movies and himself rather seriously. And so do audiences who saw in "Shoe Shine" and "Bicycle Thief" two...

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THE SCREEN ALARUMS AND EXCURSIONS WITHOUT p ERHAPS the master showman, Samuel Goldwyn, announced "Guys and Dolls" with too much offsoreen fanfare. The stage show was excellent, with music and...

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THE SCREEN FATHER, DEAR FATHER, COME HOME WITH ME NOW S timely as today's headlines is "Rebel Without a Cause," a new movie about juvenile delinquency that has enough penetration to make it...

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THE SCREEN LOOK MA, NO ClNEMASCOPE, NO COLOR A MONG the many outstanding things about "Trial," one of the most hard-hitting antiCommunist films to come out of Hollywood, is that it dares to...

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THE SCREEN "CHICKS AND DUCKS BETTER SCURRY" F ROM the moment "Oklahoma!" starts and the camera glides into the corn that is as high as an elephant's eye, you begin to get nostalgic about the...

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THE SCREEN MAN'S CASTLE w E'RE in the midst of a minor movie cycle these days--a rash of films about homes being invaded by ruthless killers looking for a hide-away. This is a cycle that...

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THE SCREEN NO COLOR LINE F ROM almost the beginning of "Seven Cities of Gold," when Father Junfnero Serra berates the Spanish soldiers for making slaves of the Mexicans, you realize you are...

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THE SCREEN IN THE FORESTS OF THE NIGHT p ERHAPS I approached "The Night of the Hunter" with too great expectations. I had enjoyed the unusual novel by Davis Grubb, which alternated a poetic...

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THE SCREEN MEAD Ihl YOUR EYE E NGLAND is lovely at this time of year---or at least it was last week when I was there to celebrate a new TV series, "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Some sixty...

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THE SCREEN WHAT, NO HEMINGWAY! A T the beginning and the end of "The African Lion," the latest entry in Walt Disney's fea,ture-length True-Life Adventures, the camera concentrates on Mount...

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THE SCREEN WHAT ARE HEROES, PROPHETS, MEN? N 'O doubt the most amazing thing about "To Hell and Back" is ,that the makers of this good movie were able to ten the story of the most decorated...

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THE SCREEN WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE? S INCE I haven't read Han Suyin's semi-autobiographical novel, A Many-Splendored Thing, I don't know what kind of a defense she puts up for the...

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THE SCREEN "MOST FRIENI~HIP IS FEIGNING" F RESH back from Italy, I'm hardly in a mood for reviewing films about life as Hollywood sees it---but I am fortunate in havin~ three new items that are...

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JOHN C. CORT. THE SCREEN DRAPES OF WRATH U 'SUALLY a web is spun by a single insect, but "The Cobweb" is spun by practically everyone in the picture's large and good cast. It all starts so...

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THE SCREEN SOLOMON, SOLOMON IF ever,a picture was well named, it's "The Divided Heart. The title of this fascinating English film refers to a ten-year-old boy who is torn between staying...

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THE SCREEN LILACS ON A PALM TREE W HETHER or not you read the novel, Mister Roberts, by Thomas Heggen, or saw the play by Heggen and Joshua Logan, you probably know they were about the tedium...

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THE SCREEN THREE SHRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT WHATEVER you may of the in think ideas Joseph Kramm's play, The Shrike,' the stage production did have a terrific wallop. You almost came away with the...

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THE SCREEN SCALPEL-AN D-SOAP OPERA I ' T seems odd for the maker of such thought-provoking movies as "Home of the Brave," "High . Noon," "The Wild One" and "Member of the Wedding" to turn...

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THE SCREEN JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT I T is a pleasure to report that Walt Disney and his cohorts have come up with a new featurelength animated cartoon that should please all men, women and...

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THE SCREEN VENETIAN GLASS; EGYPTIAN TOMB W HATEVER you may think of "Summertime" as a story, you've got to admit it's one of the most beautifully photographed movies ever made--so beautiful in...

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THE SCREEN IT AIN'T MEASLES N OT having seen the stage play of "The Seven Year Itch," I can't make comparisons; but I have a sneaking idea that George Axelrod, who wrote the original and...

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THE SCREEN "TEN CENTS A DANCE" I 'M not sure that Producer Joe Pasternak and Director Charles Vidor realized what a bittersweet musical they were making in "Love Me or Leave Me." But in any...

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THE SCREEN HIGH WIDE AND SOMEWHAT HANDSOME THIS is one of those weeks in which the motion pictures camera, having travelled far and wide, is now showing off its wares in films of...

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THE SCREEN FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL S TRANGELY enough this has suddenly become the season of documentaries, or semi-documentaries, I should say, because, although the camera does not lie,...

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THE SCREEN SEPTEMBER AND MAY HAVING made several movies recently about romances between middle-aged men and young girls, Hollywood would of course dig up the grandpappy of them all: "Daddy Long...

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THE SCREEN MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN I T would be easy for Noel Coward, if he's still in the satirical mood, to kid the three latest British film imports. Their characters talk and act...

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THE SCREEN ROGER I T was a pretty glamorous moment at New York's Paramount Theater the other day when the newsreel ended and the new screen expanded to its enormous sixty-four foot width to...

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THE SCREEN TO THE LADLES THE distaff side of the cinema colony seems to be taking over the screen this week--and with resuits that will no doubt considerably interest the distaff side of the...

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THE SCREEN FLIGHT DOWN LABYRINTHINE WAYS S ARAH Miles, in "The End of the Affair," runs so hard from the Hound of Heaven that she does herself in. She loses the race, but she wins the reward....

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THE SCREEN BOY MEETS GIRL, 1955 R OMANCE in the movies now is a far, far different thing than it was some twenty or even ten years ago; but even now it is not often that we get a wonderfully...

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THE SCREEN ClAOU M OVIE fans in New York, fortunate in having the Museum of Modern Art with its daily programs of old films, are particularly fortunate during the next two months because...

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THE SCREEN BIOGRAPHY C ATHERINE Marshall's glowing biography of her husband, who was famous for his sermons as a Presbyterian minister and for his pithy prayers as chaplain of the U.S. Senate,...

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THE SCREEN THREE CHILLS M URDER-MYSTERY fans w~l, have a heyday at "Three Cases of Murder,' an import from England based on three separate short stories having sudden death in common. The...

The Screen (March 1955)

THE SCREEN "THE DROGHTE OF MARCH" S PRING is arriving with a flurry of new films, none of which you have to drop everything to rush out and see, but several of which you may want to know about...

The Screen (March 1955)

THE SCREEN UNSTILL SITS THE SCHOOLHOUSE R EADERS of Blackboard 1ungle, Evan Hunter's provocative novel about conditions in a New York vocational school, were divided into several camps: those,...

The Screen (March 1955)

THE SCREEN WOE IS ME AND WOE IS YOU T WO new movies are outstanding examples of film making but are also physically and emotionally exhausting. Paul Osborn, concentrating on the last part of...

The Screen (March 1955)

THE SCREEN COME, JOSEPHINE, IN MY FLYING MACHINE N O doubt the movies have come a long way since they started out as flickers some fifty years ago, and the ultimate was reached in September of...

The Screen (February 1955)

THE SCREEN FUN-LOVING MARINES AND MEDICS T HERE are enough plots in "Battle Cry" to take care of several movies, but Leon M. Uris, who wrote the script from his own novel, chose to wrap them...

The Screen (February 1955)

THE SCREEN CHIPS OF THE AULD SOD J OHN Ford has a field day in "The Long Gray Line" telling the story of Marty Maher who was an athletic instructor at West Point for fifty years. Edward Hope's...

The Screen (February 1955)

THE SCREEN LAW AND ORDER B ECAUSE of its subject matter, life at the California Institute for Men at Chino, "Unchained" is no ordinary, clich6-ridden prison movie. The very fact that it was...

The Screen (February 1955)

THE SCREEN "SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD" E XCEPT for a few brief scenes concerned with men on leave in Japan, "The Bridges at Toko-ri" is all war; and Mark Robson has directed his cast...

The Screen (January 1955)

THE SCREEN NOW IS THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT H ALF the lines in "Prince of Players" are by William Shakespeare and the other half are by Moss Hart, who based his script on the book by Eleanor...

The Screen (January 1955)

RICHARD HAYES. THE SCREEN FROM HIGH NOON ON T HE new year starts with a bang; and if the two films reviewed this week set a standard, 1955 augurs well. "Bad Day at Black Rock" will remind you...

The Screen (January 1955)

THE SCREEN I'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT'SITSNAME EACH year as I submit my list of "best ten," I wonder how many of those films will be remembered ten, or even five years later. Since this is one...

The Screen (December 1954)

THE SCREEN BRISKET OF BLOWFISH BASTED IN BARNACLES WE are fortunate that it was a producer with Walt Disney's high standards who decided to film "20,000 Leagues under the Sea." It is an...

The Screen (December 1954)

THE SCREEN THERE'S NO SCHMALTZ LIKE SHOW SCHMALTZ H OLLYWOOD has a penchant for making movies about show business. Few of these have the bite or realism of "All About Eve" or "The Country...

The Screen (December 1954)

THE SCREEN BING ON A BINGE M OVIE reviewers love to point with pride at film versions of plays that are better than the originals. They can point with pride at "The Country Girl." While Paul...

The Screen (December 1954)

THE SCREEN "BURY THEIR PARENTS' STRIFE" A LL three of the pictures reviewed this week have two things in common: they are outstanding examples of color photography and they have stories in...

The Screen (December 1954)

THE SCREEN NOT WISELY BUT TOO WELL A LTHOUGH many of Graham Greene s stories have been adapted into cinema, few of these movies, interesting though they may be, have caught the essence of...

The Screen (November 1954)

THE SCREEN PARASITES IN PARIS SITES I N F. Scott Fitzgerald's excellent short story, "Babylon Revisited," a father returns to Paris in the early thirties to reclaim his daughter from...

The Screen (November 1954)

THE SCREEN THE JONES GIRL AND THE ALAN LAD A S a movie, "Carmen Jones" is exciting. Telling the story of a corporal named Joe in wartime United States who falls passionately in love with...

The Screen (November 1954)

THE SCREEN GRACIOUS GUMSHOE I F you're not too upset about the fact that Alec Guinness doesn't look exactly like the jovial, roly-poly priest in G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories, you...

The Screen (October 1954)

THE SCREEN PRETTIEST TINSEL ON THE TREE T HERE are times when "Woman's World" will remind you of "Executive Suite." Both are chockf-uU of stars and both have to do with the search for a new...

The Screen (October 1954)

THE SCREEN HOME IS THE STAR I T isn't just Technicolor or CinemaScope or beautifully staged production numbers that make "A Star Is Born" such a fine movie. They help; but what really count...

The Screen (October 1954)

THE SCREEN WHIM WITH A WHAM NYONE who is a devotee of both o~ra and puppets should be happy when he sees ' Hansel and Gretel," the handsome Michael Myerberg production that uses the Humperdinck...

The Screen (October 1954)

THE SCREEN IF THE SLIPPER FITS T HERE are two modem Cinderella stories on the docket this week and they are as different as day from night. The first, "Sabrina," makes no pretense about being...

The Screen (October 1954)

THE SCREEN DEARLY BELOVED I T is so seldom that a movie is about true love that we have extra reason for cheering "The Little Kidnappers," a badly named English film that is set in Nova Scotia...

The Screen (September 1954)

THE SCREEN OFFBEAT FOREMOST on the list of current unusual films is a Japanese import called "Ugetsu," which is based on several tales written by Akinari Ueda in 1768. The plot follows the...

The Screen (September 1954)

THE SCREEN JUST THE FOLKS, MA'AM M OVIES, it seems, are getting more folksy than ever. This isn't necessarily bad--especially when the movies themselves are good, like a new Italian import,...

The Screen (September 1954)

THE SCREEN WITH CINEMASCOPE THROUGH THE AGES WHILE I wasn't aware of the "million swaying bullrushes referred to m the advertisement listing the glories of the "The Egyptian," I'm sure I took...

The Screen (August 1954)

THE SCREEN WHERE ARE THE PLAINS OF YESTERYEAR? T HERE'S a sweet-sad air of nostalgia in the new full-length documentary in Walt Disney's TrueLife Adventure series. The very title of...

The Screen (August 1954)

THE SCREEN MAN'S HOPE I T is so seldom that an American film spends most of its footage considering the basic dignity of man (as did the Italian "Bicycle Thief" and the French "Diary of a...

The Screen (August 1954)

THE SCREEN LOOK NOW I F THE studios are going to continue to spring such pleasant surprises as this week's adult erLtertainments, moviegoers won't be able to do too much complaining about...

The Screen (August 1954)

THE SCREEN DON'T BE A STAY-AT-HOME T HE Egyptian scenery and archeological stuff in "Valley of the Kings" are so interesting that for long stretches of the film you can almost forget the...

The Screen (July 1954)

THE SCREEN SURVIVAL OF THE PHFFFTEST N O doubt the greatest trial for Robinson Crusoe was loneliness. He could survive a shipwreck, learn how to build a fire on his deserted island, grow wheat,...

The Screen (July 1954)

THE SCREEN TATTLE-TALE GRAY p ERHAPS there is some defense for soap operas on radio: at least a woman can go about her work as she half-listens and day-dreams over their preposterous stories....

The Screen (July 1954)

THE SCREEN LOTSA PEOPLE; LOTSA EXCITEMENT W 'HILE I liked the movie version of "The High and the Mighty" better than the original novel by Ernest K. Gann, I have to admit that both have the...

The Screen (July 1954)

THE SCREEN BY AIR, LAND AND SEA S photographed in color and wide-screen CinemaScope, under the supervision of Sir Gordon Craig, "The Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth and Philip" is a handsome...

The Screen (July 1954)

THE SCREEN VACATION, ANYONE? C ONTENDERS that movies were much better before talkies seem to win a point with "Mr. Hulot's Holiday." This wonderful little French film has and needs no English...

The Screen (June 1954)

THE SCREEN LET'S NOT BE BEASTLY TO CIUEEG T HE fi!m version of "The Caine Mutiny" suffers only by comparison. Moviegoers who have not read Herman Wouk's novel (are there any?) or have not seen...

The Screen (June 1954)

THE SCREEN THEM ARE ANTS W 'HAT helps most to make "Them!", a new science-fiction thriller, believable, in spite of its fantastic plot, is Gordon Douglas' direction, which follows a technique...

The Screen (June 1954)

THE SCREEN LIGHT IN DARKNESS NOWING that "The Unconquered" was a documentary film about Helen Keller, I approached its preview with some curiosity (as to how its subject would be handled) and...

The Screen (June 1954)

THE SCREEN TWO COINS DOWN THE DRAIN T HE new "Three Coins in the Fountain," most of which was photographed in Rome, has some of the most beautiful shots of that city ever to ~ppear in a...

The Screen (May 1954)

THE SCREEN S FOR SOMETIME LFRED Hitchock's "Dial M for Murder" is a sometime thing. Sometimes it's frightfully exciting and shows why Hitchcock is considered the master director of suspense;...

The Screen (May 1954)

THE SCREEN SEE HOW THEY RUN LOOKING prettier than ever with natural brown hair instead of silver blond, Lana Turner portrays in her new picture, a restless dame who just cannot resist men....

The Screen (May 1954)

THE SCREEN CHILLS AND STUFF THE cops-and-robbers theme is frequently disguised, but no matter how tricked up, it is still the good guys chasing the bad guys. In "The Miami Story," the good...

The Screen (May 1954)

THE SCREEN LOOK HOMEWARD. ANGEL HOLLYWOOD stars are traipsing to the four corners to add their familiar glamor to films set in unfamiliar places. Although the locales usually have something...

The Screen (April 1954)

THE SCREEN BIG AND MONKEF BUSINESS PRODUCER John Houseman, who has shown before that he knows how to make movies ("Julius Caesar," '~'he Bad and the Beautiful") was smart to gather such a...

The Screen (April 1954)

THE SCREEN GRACE IS EVERYWHERE PERHAPS of all of great modern novels the one readers would consider the most unlikely movie material is Georges Bernanos' The Diary oJ a Country Priest. This...

The Screen (April 1954)

THE SCREEN I ' M CALL/NO YOO-HOO-HOO-HOO-HO0 N OW that Hollywood has discovered CinemaScope, it is rediscovering the Arthurian legends. King Arthur and his boys romp fine across a wide...

The Screen (April 1954)

THE SCREEN FATHER KNOWS BEST W ITHOUT messing around with any of Wordsworth's sentimentalities about youth, "The Lonely Night" gets right down to the business of illustrating that childhood...

The Screen (April 1954)

which gives the second act proceedings a wilful and dila- praise is largely for her personal quality which has not tory air. Nor is the physical production distinguished. yet become a...

The Screen (March 1954)

But this is once when Mums' intuition has failed her. apartment to win a beautiful lady (Danielle Darrieux), The scientist is abducted; then returned. But what...

The Screen (March 1954)

MacMahon, as a suburban Pallas Athene, achieves a one, especially the English, and it does not spare those remarkably sini.~ter effect. There is perhaps, in the pres- involved in...

The Screen (March 1954)

formances in a rich, vivid vein which give the play the on the clever stage revue, has been filmed in color occasional roustabout flavor of life. One of these is and CinemaScope; and while...

The Screen (March 1954)

for more than ten years before the CIO threw them out. And some of the fellow .travelers who stopped THE SCREEN traveling never forgave the ACTU for fingering them. And even consistent...

The Screen (February 1954)

tions of "Antigone, .... Legend of Lovers," "Ring Round the Moon," and "Cry of the Peacock," but each has been either understatement, overstatement or misstate- ment: closest to the mark was...

The Screen (February 1954)

THE SCREEN REAL LIVE PEOPLE I I F the trend toward biographical pictures continues its 1953 pace, the movies will polish off the great and near-great in no time and have to start...

The Screen (January 1954)

Lony ...

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THE STAGE JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON'S ALMANAC M M ISS Hermione Gingold and a deft young attendant, Mr. Orson Bean, are the plums in this Christmas pudding. She is the English revue...

The Screen (January 1954)

their next offering---Shakespeare's "Codolanus"mfor mid-January, and then a repertoire to include, possibly, plays by O'Casey, Tennessee Williams and Thurber. A respectable list, to be sure,...

The Screen (December 1953)

THE STAGE THE SOLID GOLD CADILLAC T T HE shadow of Cinderella falls long on the current season. Last week, it was the tithe and arresting Miss Margaret Sullavan; now the plump...

The Screen (December 1953)

THE STAGE SABRINA FAIR A FINE company has given "Sabrina Fair" so thin and hard a glaze of luxury that one is dismayed ---on scraping off the glamorous theatrical wax --to find the work itself...

The Screen (December 1953)

THE STAGE THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL M R. Harold Clurman, whose drama criticism provides one of the last patches of luster in the faltering Nation, has written so pointed and thoughtful an essay on...

The Screen (November 1953)

thought. "The Little Hut" is again in the adulterous photographed in Technicolor. tradition of the French theatre, sensually arid, but The Disney studio is releasing "The Living...

The Screen (November 1953)

etched in venom. In the zoo, these animals turn and rend THE STAGE each other cruelly,...

The Screen (October 1953)

sensitivity has again exacted its toll: the evidence is plain in the pallid language of "Tea and Sympathy," in its inability to bear the moral traffic, and the drama's...

The Screen (October 1953)

play's titular variations. Known originally as "The Holy Experiment," and in Paris as "Sur la Terre comme au THE SCREEN Ciel," Miss Le Gallienne smoothed it out to "The A LITTLE...

The Screen (October 1953)

as part of the stage decor.) I cannot predict for THE STAGE "Take a Giant Step" any of the...

The Screen (October 1953)

kle. Most of them will probably go on smoldering in THE STAGE their own depravity,...

The Screen (September 1953)

presidency was vacant and everybody should move up one, like the guests at the Mad Hatter's tea party. In another surprise move the council (this time over Meany's objections) voted to fill the...

The Screen (September 1953)

social-democratic program, is really a little startling. From beginning to end of Challenge to Britain there is no sign of the human factor. The accent throughout is an action by the Government:...

The Screen (August 1953)

moving himself from the presidency, Joe's future can only be described as not bright. The New York State Crime Commission recently opened a few windows in the stable and let the public get a...

The Screen (August 1953)

American Catholics, should be correctly informed as to what their object was. There was no desire in France to read Americans a lesson or to get back at an America which tends to regard the...

The Screen (July 1953)

THE STAGE A BACKWARD GLANCE OR the critic (or reviewer, or commentator, or however one designates practitioners of this align and maligning profession) a retrospective view of the Broadway...

The Screen (July 1953)

thing of the calibre of the incomparable "Letter to the World." It would be difficult to conceive of a more successful American drama of the "inner life" than this fantasia on the moral and...

Tho Screen (July 1953)

of these is an attempt to take admmtallo t f em d tha perfidious clamel of the Taft-Hart~ Act, which ~o.that strikers cannot vote in a representation eleotion ff their jobs have been RUed by...

The Screen (July 1953)

his range. He sold his local officers and members on proposing a joint production committee to three of the companies with whom they had contracts. There were plenty of good arguments for it. The...

The Screen (June 1953)

mands of poetry, the theatre and the audience. An incidental observation: is there something more than coincidence in the fact that two such first-rate major and minor works as "Under Milk...

The Screen (June 1953)

ister forces at work giving us more religion on the BBC and more monarchy in the newspapers. The Coronation spirit is akin to that of fascism and Senator McCarthy. Yet, basically, it is sound...

The Screen (June 1953)

THE SCREEN A BUSS FOR BESS N 'OT to be left completely out of the picture by the Coronation fanfare, MGM has released "Young Bess," a historical film about the girlhood of England's first...

The Screen (June 1953)

In the spring engagement, recently concluded at the City Center, the substance of the repertoire consisted again of Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, Bizet. These productions have always the virtues of...

The Screen (May 1953)

I N the same week, a provocative ensemble, The Artists Theatre, presented--under private auspices and before an illustrious audience---a new play by Mr. Parker Tyler, the noted poet and film...

The Screen (May 1953)

Literature and the Arts In addition to the emphasis on books and authors in special literary issues such as this one, The Commonweal maintains a continuing interest in the contemporary arts...

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long enough for Father Chathaparampil. He has set up a printing plant to produce "Cheap Literary Catholic Publications," one of which is a paper entitled Labour. He has a speakers' bureau...

The Screen (May 1953)

by sharing in management and consumer representation are capable of dealing with the problem. The welfare state is full of loopholes through which fall a sizable minority of the people. Besides,...

The Screen (April 1953)

THE SCREEN WHAT ARE THE LITTLE FILMS SAYING? I T is very often the minor movies, the most unpretentious films, that are the most stimulating. "Bright Road," one of the newest of these,...

The Screen (April 1953)

Catholicism in America I n recent years the attitudes of Catholics toward key issues in American culture and civilization have become the subject of controversy among Catholics and...

The Screen (March 1953)

have determined on the last, asserting by this choice a democratic freedom from the restraints and conventions of the formal operatic scheme. Yet what strikes one, even in so lustrous a...

The Screen (March 1953)

Where then is the dividing line between what is `morally' permissible and a war crime? "Actually the answer is that an act is permissible if committed by the victor, forbidden if perpetrated by the...

The Screen (March 1953)

cost us dearly. Even the treaties negotiated by Cordell Hull made no really effective breaches in your trade walls. In recent years you have been compensating for these barriers by giving money...

The Screen (March 1953)

ing since it first appeared a little over a hundred years ago, believed that in order to save society economic self-interest had to be suppressed. On neither assumption could a modern industrial...

The Screen (February 1953)

THE STAGE M/D-SUMMER M ISS Vina Delmar, an honored headmistress of hthaes school of marshmallow magazine fiction, .a_ 9 ~ stepped out of the glossy suburbs to write a play of considerable...

The Screen (February 1953)

THE STAGE THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS A FTER Shaw, who? Not Mr. Fry, hardly Mr. Eliot, but--Peter Ustinov? The suggestion, so 9vulnerable to mockery, should not be rejected without...

The Screen (January 1953)

in her life, and at the end, when Franlde has grown as she should out of childhood and made her casual farewells to Berenice. Then it is trouble-laden Berenice who is left all alone to comfort...

The Screen (January 1953)

ture's Australian scenes and Michael S. Gordon's sincere direction make it a refreshing experience. "~)rI-I. ILE "Curtain Up," an import from England, Vu is no great shakes, its two...

The Screen (January 1953)

other junk. In fact, television is inheriting most of Hollywood's mediocrities." Some of what Mr. Schary says is true; but not all the junk has been eliminated yet. And while there were good...

The Screen (January 1953)

THE SCREEN PRETTIER THAN POPCORN AND MORE FUN A T year's end four gala Technicolor items have turned up to brighten your holidays. Since these are of varying degrees of entertainment, you...

The Screen (December 1952)

THE SCREEN YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN T HE smartest thing that Producer Hal Wallis did after deciding to make a movie out of William Inge's play "Come Back, Little Sheba" was to cast Shirley Booth...

The Screen (December 1952)

THE STAGE THE NATIONAL THEATRE Of GREECE AN embarrassment of riches brought us the National Theatre of Greece within a short space of LM. Jean-Louis Barrault's spectacular advent. The Greek...

The Screen (December 1952)

THE SCREEN GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS IT is interesting that several European film makers turn up at this time with movies suggesting that youngsters are smarter than their seniors, or, to...

The Screen (December 1952)

THE SCREEN PILGRIMS1 PROGRESS ENTHUSIASTIC admirers of Spencer Tracy, Gene Tierney, Van Johnson, Leo Genn and the Pilgrims who landed on these shores in 1620 will no doubt be equally...

The Ugly Duckling (November 1952)

THE SCREEN THE UGLY DUCKLING ONCE upon a time there was a cobbler who could stitch a mean boot but preferred to make up and tell stories. The young fry in the village of Odense where he lived were...

Better with a Drammamine (November 1952)

THE SCREEN BETTER WITH A DRAMAMINE AFTER Lowell Thomas finishes his introduction to the new wonder entertainment called "This is Cinerama," the screen suddenly grows in size and Cinerama itself...

Keeping that Stiff Upper Lip (November 1952)

THE SCREEN KEEPING THAT STIFF UPPER LIP IT is amazing that the English, who can pack such an emotional wallop in their literature, are so blase about emotion in their movies. "Breaking...

And So to Bed (November 1952)

THE SCREEN AND SO TO BED NO one can deny that Producer Stanley Kramer has courage and imagination. Several years ago he came up with one of the first (and still one of the best) of the pictures...

Loving (October 1952)

THE SCREEN LOVING IF ever a movie soared with lyricism it is the Rossellini film now being shown in this country. "Flowers of St. Francis" may disappoint moviegoers who expect it to be a...

The Bugs and the Movies (October 1952)

THE SCREEN THE BUGS AND THE MOVIES ONE thing that the two biographical films reviewed this week have in common is the oft-repeated idea that the innovator's, like the policeman's, lot is very...

The Screen (November 1952)

THE SCREEN POPPA SAYS ALL the before-and-after fanfare over the publication of a new Hemingway novel has revived the papa legend. Author James Michener, himself a Pulitzer Prize winner, has gone...

The Screen (September 1952)

THE SCREEN BOY INTO MAN; MAN INTO BOY THE complexities of youth are covered by two new films—one in which a teen-age youngster is surrounded by a loving and happy family, and the other in which a...

The Screen (September 1952)

THE SCREEN NOT GEMUTLICH ALTHOUGH it does not depict postwar conditions with the same complete realism and despair that Rossellini showed in "Germany—Year Zero," "The Devil Makes Three" has enough...

The Screen (September 1952)

This was not the first time Swedish airmen have experienced how hysterically touchy the Russians become as soon as any foreign planes or boats approach the coastline of the three Baltic Soviet...

The Screen (September 1952)

contracts. He blamed the strike on "a series of mistakes by all of us" and said that he and Murray had agreed that there must be some better way to handle their problems than "to keep slugging it...

The Screen (August 1952)

And then I thought of writing him a letter in prison, perhaps to prove that hatred was not an American habit. But what should I say? I might remind him whimsically of Mussolini's ingenious idea of...

The Screen (August 1952)

vealed this to so many people that the Ohio Senator was defeated. The meaning of the Dewey-Eisenhower attack was that they were unwilling to play an old game. And it is likely that one of the...

The Screen (August 1952)

THE SCREEN NOR CUSTOM STALE JOAN CRAWFORD has stood through the years as a symbol of movie glamor. Through the years indeed —for Miss Crawford has been with us a long time; and it is to her credit...

The Screen (August 1952)

THE SCREEN IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? IT has become obvious that movie makers are never going to satiate their desire to make films about doctors and things medical. Perhaps there is...

The Screen (August 1952)

THE SCREEN CARRIE ME BACK TO OLD COCTEAU E NTHUSIASTS about Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser's first (and sometimes considered best) novel, which appeared in 1900, won't be too disappointed with...

The Screen (July 1952)

THE SCREEN NO INDIANS cc HIGH Noon" is one of those superior westerns with adult themes that gain force by being combined with suspenseful, two-fisted drama. Starring Gary Cooper, its sparse and...

The Screen (July 1952)

THE SCREEN HOW NOW BROWN COW W HEN the English put their minds to it, they are better than anyone else at kidding themselves. Hollywood has its good satirical directors like Chaplin and Preston...

The Screen (July 1952)

THE SCREEN ROBIN HOOD'S AUNT IF we can judge by two fine new films, the moviegoer is the winner in the high-finance deals that prompt Hollywood producers to use up frozen foreign funds by making...

The Screen (July 1952)

THE SCREEN A PSYCHO IS IN THE STREETS ONE who takes his movies seriously these days is likely to think that our streets are crawling with psychopaths out to do the public no good. The Hollywood...

The Screen (June 1952)

THE SCREEN RUN WEST ON BALKAN WE'RE in the midst of a spy-and-chase cycle and everybody wants to get into the act. The latest entry is "Diplomatic Courier," a well-made thriller that has some...

The Screen (June 1952)

THE SCREEN SWEENEY AMONG NIGHTINGALES ANIMAL lovers will welcome a new English film, "Ivory Hunter," which went to Africa to develop its thesis that man has acted shamefully in wasting wild life....

The Screen (June 1952)

THE SCREEN WHAT ARE THE WILD WAVES SAYING? MOST of "Skirts Ahoy!" takes place at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. According to this MS Technicolor job, boot camp for Waves is a kind of...

The Screen (June 1952)

THE SCREEN INSIDE STRAIGHT THE surprising thing about "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" is that in several ways it is an improvement over the original story. Bret Harte's famous tale is really a...

The Screen (May 1952)

OUT OF CRANNIES ERHAPS my expectations, like Tennyson's when p he found the flower in the crannied wall, were too great. I approached the new English film, "Outcast of the Islands," with high...

The Screen (May 1952)

habits nowadays is to suppose that a rational equation is an adequate stage substitute for an intuited sense of the movement of things, and the fact that "The Victim" was rationally interesting...

The Screen (May 1952)

THE SCREEN THE FRENCH MARRYING KIND FROM France has just arrived the kind of a little movie that we seldom make in this country. In the first part of "Edward and Caroline" we see an attractive...

The Screen (May 1952)

THE SCREEN FRIED FREUD MOVIEGOERS looking for the unusual will find their fare in a group of recently imported films. From Sweden comes "Miss Julie," an extraordinarily handsome production based...

The Screen (April 1952)

realizes that this is where she belongs. The judge is summarily dismissed, Dolly and Verena throw their arms about one another, and the curtain falls. The catharsis which unites the two sisters is...

The Screen (April 1952)

The Screen One Shoe Oft and One Shoe On PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Leo McCarey tries to 1 handle so many subjects in "My Son John" (Myles Connolly collaborated with McCarey on the script) that none of the...

The Screen (April 1952)

The Screen Big Crimes from Little Bookies Grow A S TIMELY as today's newspaper is "The Captive City," which shows how apathetic, half-guilty citizens allow crime to grow until it takes over. The...

The Screen (March 1952)

that greeted some of his motion picture writin,g~"We could make beau.tiful music together"--convinced him that the clash between a scientifically observed surface and an imaginatively ,phrased...

The Screen (March 1952)

novels, as ,r162 as what he ca~ls entertainments, have been full of ,pity, of the sympathy of comprehension. Greene is ,aware of th,is; ,he relates d~t to his virtue of "dMoyalty." "L~yalty," he...

The Screen (March 1952)

The Stage Venus Observed T HE most i*~expl,ic~ble thhag about this Theatre Guild prod.uction of Christopher Fry's comedy is th,at Laurence Oli~ier, w~ho commissioned dae play, performed it...

The Screen (February 1952)

The Stage Williams and Dickens E MLYN WILLIAM,S, ~ho is normally busy wri~"rag, directing, mad a~fir~g his own plays, has taken a year or ,two off xo g~ troup~r~g through En,glaz~d...

The Screen (February 1952)

ously defined r I~ the course of snaring her man, she also manages to sell an amateurish play her sister has w~ri, tten, and to guaran, tee father and bro,ther some kind of m,i, ld...

The Screen (February 1952)

The trouble with rhymed couplets as ~ dramatic device is, of course, the fact tha't each rhyme, with its reiniorced emphasis, constitutes a period. W,here the rhyme talls, the line stops. An...

The Screen (February 1952)

The Screen When you see "Rooan ,for One More," you'll understand why the o0ml~lemly amsdfish Roses, who h,ad thdr fukl share of aches and pai.ns and ,~ps and dowas, were a loving aad h~ppy...

The Screen (January 1952)

Rodgc~, Hart, and O'Hava w~rote d~ir saga Ix[ a dlmap, self-seeking ~baret ~tx~rformer straight trom the Shoulder, and, w~th a single posS~O1E exc~6on, it is being ~layed ,that way at *he...

The Screen (January 1952)

her ~too much to live, he goes to his own death--and not a moment too soma, oither. The at~hor--~t ,least in Kkty Black's transla.tion-is at 'ha~s best when he is ,g~al~biest. Using an...

The Screen (January 1952)

The Screen GETTING TO KNOW YOU T HAT cinema speaks aa'l ,i~tern~tiona~l ~langu.age, in sp~te of the .fact that somad .tracks are usual.ly national .n~ow, is evidenced by a group of new,...

The Screen (January 1952)

The Screen MOVIETIME U. S. A. T HAT'S the title Hollywood gave its big campaign started ha September of I95t to answer and fight back against some slings aml arrows. Everybody takes a sock at...

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Equally delightful is Grace George, with soeae of the play's daatpest lines. And Brian Aherne is brilliantly Immpoul as the husband who finds himself checkmuted. (.,It the National) LO AND...

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The Screen DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS I T WOULD be ~ood, of course, if more of the fe~tivities surrounding Christmas were appropriate to the original intention; but if even some of .the...

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The Stage The Screen GIGI S oMrBoDY ould write on style a.rou d a,texth,,~k the currem production af Gigi. The basic notioaa o~ the play, taken from a novel by Colette, is flippant and amoral....

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SOLVE YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT PROBLEM GIVE MEXICO: A LAND OF VOLCANOES by Archbishop Joseph H. Schlarman Second printing just out W~aat critics say: "We had tong sought in vain for a satisfactory...

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and Hammerstdn, and even Rodgers and Hammerstdn are somewhat over-imposin,g in "The King aaad I " - and there are, in addition, a lot ot deligh~fu/ comedians who don't s the more closely woven...

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Athenian into a series of picture~p0stcard tableaux, permlts him to speak softly to a variety of ideological opponeats, and then condemns hi.m to death. But nc~here has he given him a clear,...

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finally has the odd effect of not being ~bout a~ything at all, and why Miss Rogers shouM have thought it partictrlarly suited to her t~lents, I can, nor imagine. ,She certainly is given no...

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There is, per.h~ps, the ma~terial here for a revue sketch, and Mr. Cummings is playing it as though it were a revue sketch, but expanding suc~h idle whimsy into a ~ull-length evening wou,ld...

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too ab.rt~ptly; and fin.ally even the virtues of the evening tend to cancel ea& other out. Mr. M.abley's ineonsds'ten.t tone has further complications. The play's basic situation is both comic...

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The Screen WEEP FOR BLANCHE IF YOU are not moved by compassion for Blanche Dubois at the end of "A Streetcar Named Desire," then you are probably as hard-hearted as her cloddish brother-in-law,...

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The Screen JES' KEEPS ROLLING ALONG searches for her place in life. All three of tihese girls fall in love with the visiting American who, uprooted by the war and bitter about his wooden leg...

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The Screen BUT WHAT PLACE? NO DOUBT, now that An American Tragedy is turning up again on the screen, the arguments will start all over again as to whether its central character is a victim of...

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The Screen NOT QUITE GOOD ENOUGH THIS is one of those weeks in which your critic isn't blowing hot or cold. The studios are offering several new films about whiich they are highly...

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The Screen THE CHILD IS FATHER I'M not sure whose idea it was to use a serious story about a maladjusted father-son relationship as tihe basis for comedy in the new Dean Martin-Jerry...

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The Screen EYELESS IN PENNA WHEN a good picture like "Bright Victory" comes along, and handles with extraordinary understanding material .that the movies have treated pretty well for several...

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430 The Screen "ALL IN THE GOLDEN AFTERNOON" SOMETIMES we forget that a young Oxford don, Reverend Charles Dodgson, started telling the remarkable stories of Alice's adventures as he and...

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The Screen BREWSTER'S LITTLE HELPER SOMETIMES you wonder in these days when TV is hanging over Hollywood's head like a threatening ogre and cinema palaces are once more dusting off the free...

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The Screen YES AND NO, MY DARLING DAUGHTER IF HOLLYWOOD really wanted to do a movie exposing the weaknesses and failings of fraternity and sorority life I'm sure it could. The industry has...

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The Screen TENNIS ANYONE? THE game of tennis comes into its own this week with two new films in .which the leading characters are masters of the sport. The real master of "Strangers on a Train" of...

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The Screen HOW STARK CAN YOU GET? A MOVIE like Billy Wilder's new opus "Ace in the Hole" represents the ultimate in cinematic technique. Its beautiful photography, its 'good on-the-spot New Mexico...

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The Screen A RUN FOR YOUR MONEY IF EVER A film was well named it's John Garfield's latest opus: "He Ran All the Way." Garfield, portraying an unhappy young man whose home life is by no means...

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The Screen CAN'T HELP LOVIN' DAT FILM SINCE THE highly popular "Show Boat" has been revived twice on the stage and twice in the movies since its New York premiere in 1927, it might be called a...

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The Screen ANGLO SCREWBALL IF YOU can imagine a British version of American family wackmess of the You-Can't-Take-It-WithYou school, you can pretty well visualize "Tony Draws a Horse," an...

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The Screen SUMMER READING A special 12 week Commonweal subscription for $1. Send name and summer address, specifying the week for the first issue, to: Circulation Department, The...

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The Screen SHOOT THE WORKS IT'S STILL a wonderment to me that Hollywood goes on and on making war films; perhaps even more amazing, -although definitely connected with the production, is the...

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The Screen FAREWELL ME LOVELY AS IS SO often the case when Hollywood turns a popular play into a film, the studios forget that they must abandon stage technique and make their movie more visual...

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The Screen "APES AND IVORY, SKULLS AND ROSES" AND films continue to come from foreign places to enliven our local screens. Not all of them are good, but most of them deserve our attention....

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The Screen THE WALRUS SAID READERS of that peculiar brand of story known as science fiction may consider "The Thing from Another World" pretty tame stuff; but since I'm more or less a newcomer...

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The Screen LOTS OF SHADOWS, LITTLE SUBSTANCE QOMETIMES I wonder why Hollywood bothers kj with biographical movies at all. The scriptwriters are so limited as to what can be said, especially if...

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The Screen DEATH IN THE P.M. PERHAPS it is only a coincidence that Hollywood is suddenly releasing two films about bullfighters and bullfighting; but then again, knowing how studios work, I...

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enough it's just as funny. Of course you have to accept the usual coating of Hollywood slickness and patness, but you'll find that "Father's Little Dividend" will make you laugh. Director...

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The Screen DELECTABLE BUNDLES FROM BRITAIN THAT THE English movie from Jacques Offenbach's "Tales of Hoffmann" is something of a visual and auditory treat should come as no surprise to...

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The Screen NO ISLAND, YOU HOLLYWOOD goes its merry way with films of violence smarting our eyes with all the brutality that screens can show; but I'm glad to report this week that two of the more...

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The Screen DOING GODS WILL-THEIR WAY AGAIN and again as I was watching the fascinating French film, "Dieu a besoin des hommes," I was reminded of something a priest once said to a man who was...

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The Screen LIFE WITH MOTHER IT IS interesting that two major films are turning up at the same time in which the villain, if any, is mama. I don't think this is due to the movies' discovering...

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The Screen IT'S A LONG, LONG WHILE THERE are times when a reviewer's job is not the easiest in the world-especially when he has to consider a film like "September Affair." This handsomely made movie...

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The Screen HOLD YOUR BREATH THIS WEEK the movies are asking you to take a deep breath and go under the sea with the various members of their casts. It's odd sometimes how films come out in bunches....

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The Screen THE BEST IS YET TO BE AT THE beginning of "The Magnificent Yankee" its two chief characters are in their sixties; and these two people, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and his wife Fanny,...

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The Screen BED OF NEUROSES IF YOU don't examine the characters too carefully, you'll find Halls of Montezuma a rousing, well-made picture about a company of Marines taking over a Japanese-held...

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The Screen "DARK, DARK, DARK AMIDST THE BLAZE OF NOON' WHEN THE English take themselves in hand and decide to make a good film, they can make a very good film. The Boulting Brothers, who gave us...

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The Screen WOULD YOU HIT A WOMAN WITH A CHILD? ON looking over the list of films of 1950 (the year during which Hollywood complained bitterly about business and adopted for its slogan: "Movies are...

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The Screen What Did Ya' Have in Mind? MOVIE fans looking for real cinema values are going to be disappointed in two very expensive properties just turned out by Hollywood. Harvey and Born Yesterday...

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The Screen VICKY AND HER BROOD YOU may wonder as I did, when you see The Mudlark, just why English moviegoers were so antagonistic toward the idea of Irene Dunne's playing Queen Victoria. It is true...

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The Screen Perchance to Dream JEAN COCTEAU, in a short article on his new movie, has said: "To seek to understand, this is the strange mania of men." His new movie is "Orpheus," a retelling in...

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The Screen THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A DAME IT WOULD be silly of course to think that "All About Eve" really gives the complete lowdown about women; but it tries hard in its limited way and it manages to...

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The Screen "AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON" IT IS REALLY quite appropriate that Hollywood, spinner of so many daydreams for escapists, should give us a movie version of Tennessee Williams' play...

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The Screen THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED ON THE DOCKET this week are a bunch of comedies, and since this is the type of picture I find so hard to review I can only tell you a little about each and...

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The Screen ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE IS A ROSE ordinary assistance. Further suspense is added When a young man (Marshall Thompson) is wrongly suspected, and his wife (Sally Forrest) suffers...

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a famous trial) interest Robert Browning and could easily have been material for one of his poems. I'm sure he could have given this story more meaning and depth than does the English movie...

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The Screen PETTY FOUR IT SEEMS a shame that there's such a great waste of material in "The Petty Girl." As a matter of fact there's quite a waste of talent in all four of this week's releases;...

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The Screen IF THE SUN EVER SETS IF THAT day should ever come (the day that Hollywood worries about: when Television has taken over completely, and the present world's film capital is a ghost...

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The Screen POOR RICHARD ADMIRERS of Richard Widmark have watched with interest how his movie roles have vacillated between heel and hero. The villainous roles turn up more often because...

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Communications "Men Without Faces" Bronxville, N. Y. TO THE Editors: Dr. Gurian is perhaps asking too much of Mr. Budenz when he wants him to go beyond telling the facts of deceit and cruelty...

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Some of the differences between farmers and workers will fall before enlightenment. Some are real and will persist. These must be reconciled. Compatibility, unless you are merely childish,...

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wee hours of the morning. When the news was given out that General MacArthur had authorized fighter escorts to accompany the planes used to evacuate the Americans, we realized that this was not...

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?he Fall, but it is not the less a fallacy which has done 'remendous damage to world politics. Thoughtful tmon;.rchs are less rare than thoughtful mobs. Paul Elmer More has written an article...

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practices. Those who, like Tocqueville, Calhoun, Lord Acton and Matthew Arnold, feared the development in the United States of "tyranny by majorities" reckoned without much understanding of...

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The Screen BREATHES THERE A MAN ONE thing every moviegoer likes to do is to corner a movie critic and tell him about the films he prefers; and the one group of films that this...

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248 the commonweal The Screen NO MATTER HOW YOU SLICE IT STILL dripping from an all-day junket (that's what the movie companies call the excursions on which they take the critics en masse...

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The Screen MURDER WILL OUT A ¦ ^HERE'S nothing like an exciting melodrama to let A you release pent-up aggressions, and if this melodrama also has a sparkle of intelligence, it can give...

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The Screen "AH, DID YOU ONCE SEE SHELLEY PLAIN?" EVEN when handling biography, film-makers realize that the play's the thing; no matter how interesting their central character is, unless the...

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The Screen LET US BE GAY OF ALL types of movies, I suspect comedies are hardest to make. Timing is so important in a comedy, and timing in a movie is difficult to judge. Should there be a...

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to its authors, they replied that it was understood, that it was to be taken for granted that such rights—freedom of religion, of speech, of the press, for example—were guaranteed. There was,...

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Communications Mark Hopkins, the Log and the Dollar Chicago, 111. TO the Editors: Mr. Nutting's article [April 14] seems to me entirely sound and indicates the way in which liberal education...

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The Screen SING A SONG OF SICK PENSE O one says that it wasn't brave of Columbia Pic tures to make a movie about cancer (no braver perhaps than the studios which made films about...

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Of Note Conditions Inside Spain THE March 31 issue of The Standard (Pearse Street, Dublin) reports on a recent pastoral letter written by Bishop Mondergo Casaus of Barcelona....

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cal, question. If that doctrine, which is now accepted as axiom, is wrong, it is mortally wrong and the prevailing quarrels over content and method, based as they all are on the axiom,...

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April 7, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 677 door, I do...

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March 31, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 655 us realize that our educational venture had been Grange, Samuel...

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March 24, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 629 within the next few months the need for more positive action will prove...

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March 17, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 607 Willie...

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580 THE COMMONWEAL March io, 1950 i- i S t--...

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March 3, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 557 had no assurance that the coal operators would not tell thinking after...

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February 24, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 537 The...

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510 THE COMMONWEAL February 17, 1950 and David Cole as the Children is honestly extraordinary. Moreover, as I...

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February io, i95o THE COMMONWEAL 487 author was one of the finest lyric dramatists of his age and ours. Here, when one...

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464 THE COMMONWEAL February 3, 1950 an emotional wallop...

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438 THE COMMONWEAL January 27, 1950 addition, the dramatic imagination. It will be far more these five men, with a...

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January 20, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 415 first will be that his promotion is in line with his per- formance. He has...

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January 13, 1950 THE COMMONWEAL 391 this grim situation,...

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364 THE COMMONWEAL January 6, 1950 laws which would give labor boards the power to review cases of union discipline...

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December 30, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 341 Communications The...

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December 23, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 319 Of Hunting." Now, I don't know whether I like it or boy adores his...

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294 THE COMMONWEAL December 16, 1949 Radio's Kenny Delmar manages an endearing job on A Dangerous Profession:...

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268 THE COMMONWEAL December 9, 1949 periment of all, it has very little point at present and ought to be...

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German Vacuum 1949 There is no way back to the past; a price must be paid for the last...

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November 2b, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 213 With Gun and Camera Tokyo Joe: is...

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180 THE COMMONWEAL November 18, 1949 stance, that I have not examined the surface analogy barrassing drivel...

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November ii, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL I59 in the United States supported and defended the dis- a satirical...

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October 28, 1:949 THE COMMONWEAL 69 and right are trying to saw them off. Does it seem the quilt. In...

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36 THE COMMONWEAL October 21, 1949 as far as we are able, with patience measure it clear that prayer must accompany our...

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632 THE COMMONWEAL their truth. On the one hand, we have Yeats consciously paring and paring his lines, dis-intensifying his dramatic images, and presenting us with dream. On the other hand, we...

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September 3 ~ , 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 607 there are approximately one-hundred published pieces of his despair, done into novels, poems, miscellaneous arrangements, and plays-- and it seems to me...

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586 THE COMMONWEAL September 23 , r949 sponsor additional programs. One of the most recently added features is a "Question Box," which is also sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, and in...

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560 THE COMMONWEAL September t 6, 1949 d the Catholic Laymen's Association of Georgia (Augusta, Gt~rgia) describes .that Order's way of life: Since the Trappists maintain themselves by...

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September 9, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 535 that the liturgical chant of the Pinna Catholics is beautiful and in many ways typically Albanian: "Vespers were sung entirely in Greek and in accordance...

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508 THE COMMONWEAL September 2, I949 I Of Note The Role ot Work I N AN ARTICLE on Catholic sociology in the August Blackfriars (St. Giles, Oxford, Englat,d), J. A. Riley tells of the approach...

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Augusta6, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 489 The Stage & Screen Westport Country Playhouse I T'S TOO HOT to think. It's too hot to drink, to dream, to collapse; or to guess, consider, argue, plot, plan or...

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414 French Cardinals on Catholio School bastion FRENCH ,Catholics were urged by their four Cardinals to use their rights as citizens for obtaining from the public authorities a school law...

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39~ THE COMMONWEAL July z 9, 1949 Papal Relie[ Children's Camps VER 9o, ooo full time and part time helpers, includ- o ing 5,ooo priests and almost 5,ooo physicians, are, or will be, in...

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July 15, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 34x the frivolous and the deluded, and that the serious and determined will thereby see that they do not work for such a period of time for nothing. I am earnestly...

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July 8, x949 THE The Screen COMMONWEAL Woe Is Them o UR LEADING characters this week find that life is tough going, but most of them show that they have what it takes. The r61es give some of...

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July i, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 295 I I ,!1=1 The Stage & Screen The Man In The Moon T HE LEVEL of entertainment in West Thirteenth Street is as high as ever it was. I can imagine no more excited...

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June to, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 221 One of the reasons why a hundred years elapsed between the Congress of Vienna and World War I with no major international conflict intervening was the...

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June 3, ~949 THE COMMONWEAL 2Ol The Screen Imports E VEN WHEN OUR screens are not showing firstrate European films, we realize that we are fortunate in bring able to see movies from abroad....

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May 27, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL "who is now struggling to finance and equip his vacation camp in the Haute Savoie for boys and girls of different ages--also for mothers with ,babies, to give them...

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May 20, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 149 Santa Maria Maggiore) is similarly opened by a Car- | , dinal designated by the Pope. The end of the Holy Year II is observed when the Holy Doors are resealed the...

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May 13 , I949 THE COMMONWEAL zzI The Screen Life's What You Make It I T'S FUN TO see Ginger Rogers and Fred Astalre together again even in plot formula number 52 about the married theatrical...

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May O, x949 THE COM Screen ...... i I I Random Notes on the D.C.C. T O BE FRANK, it seems to me Mr. Wolcott G~bs so thoroughly dispensed with the fun-loving doings of the Drama Critics Circle...

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April 29, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 69 The Stage & Screen South Pacific T HOUGH time and space ~his week do not permit a detailed discussion of the Drama Critics Circle's awards, it is still...

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46 THE COMMONWEAL April 22, z949 B For almost a century, the EMIGRANT BANK has been a member of the great New York family - - helpin.g generations of our fellowcitizens build security through...

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14 THE COMMONWEAL April 13, 1949 simply "an attempt to force middle-income families to accept sub-standard housing." In other words, we must resign oursdves to the notion that housing is strictly...

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63 8 THE COMMONWEAL April 8, 1949 Detective Story I DON'T THINK Sidney Kingsley's play precisely works and, moreover, I don't think it embraces his theme as stated in the Times drama section of...

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April I, I949 THE COM of the Church until the harvest day of Judgment, when the wheat and the chaff, the good and the bad, are separated, the latter to be burned in hell, and the former to be...

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592 THE COMMONWEAL March 25 , I949 suppose this should be called, in which characters could walk and talk in a more spacious tempo: slower, more thoughtful, less fearful. If for nothing less than...

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566 THE COMMONWEAL Symbols of Christ The Tree o] Li/e "'Xnd the Lord brought forth of the ground all manher of trees, fair to behold and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst...

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March I I , x949 THE COMMONWEAL 543 comics, servants, nor their jokes: (his externals). What we do remember and repeat are his grand soliloquies; and we repeat them as lyrics, assess them as...

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March 4, 1949 THE COMMONWEAL 521 out with a million"; Ben shot off to Alaska to "get in on the ground floor"; Ben was never afraid of new territories, new faces, no smiles. In the end, Ben's...

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494 THE COMMONWEAL February 25, 1949 to a momentarily civilian world. Mr. Whorf's backers appeared to believe that the extreme economy of the production--I believe the whole thing cost as...

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February 18, i 9 4 9 THE COMMONWEAL 473 puzzling d6nouement. He was surely capable of it. To reach the play itself, Mr. Reines has developed a situation set in a household in a fashionable suburb...

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448 T H E C O M M O N W E A L February I I, I949 deal including helmets and a lovely arrangement of flying cardboard fish, one gets the impression that everyone is too utterly bored to explore...

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424 THE COMMONWEAL February 4, I949 to work with the Russians to insure that end. Finally, there was growing dissatisfaction with the somewhat stodgy, do-nothing record of the IFTU under its...

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4o0 THE COMMONWEAL January 28, x949 The Screen Varied Program Command Decision A S A FILM "Command Decision" is not as forceful as it was on the stage; and this is not because scriptwriters...

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J a n u a r y 2x, I949 THE COMMONWEAL 377 w~th Joyce Redman. I loved her hurling the pewter all about, and her voice is fine. Lisa Kirk impressed me more as Bianca than as the straight Ingenue of...

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W352 THE COMMONWEAL January 14,1949 staccato to the lines, and to her fellow-players' delivery. I think Mr. de Liagre's task was not to have sought a plain translator, but rather a librettist--a...

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January 7, x949 THE COMMONWEAL The Screen Why Hollywood Is Worried y EAR'S END usually finds a critic swamped by the large number of films being rushed into theaters. Instead of...

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3o6 THE COMMONWEAL December 31, x948 there would be representatives of organized labor, farm- ers, consumers, industrial management and Government." Finally, "the planning and administrative...

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December 24, I948 THE COMMONWEAL 28x I , s**een rL at present. As all readers of this column will understJmd, it is necessary to be critical as well as prophetic. (at the Shubert ). Anne of...

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THE COMMONWEAL December I7, x948 mer high ranking Nazi official (Stephen McNally). Director Robert Florey instills an exciting note of mys- tery and suspense into the .plot; and the principals,...

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December io, 1948 THE COMMONWEAL z3I The Stage & Screen The Young and Fair G RAPHICALLY, there is mitker murder, rape, arson, nor mayhem committed oa the stage of the Fulton during its...

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December 3, I948 THE COMMONWEAL I97 Barry Nelson) to those of the backers of the show. In the end, the raves of the local critics force the money-men to concede, although the young...

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I76 THE COMMONWEAL November 26, x948 Add Nunn-Bush Shoes, LaPointe Machine Works, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Supplies to the list. Perhaps none of those mentioned are 9effect, but all of...

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November z9, z948 THE COMMONWEAL z43 My Victory Is My Martyrdom "Broadway" s Newest Sweetheart~"--WINCHEH. AN inspired performance, Ingrid Bergman porI N trays the 1,ast three years in the...

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118 THE COMMONWEAL November 12, 1948 ScYeepl i Life With Mother I THERE is anything the present Lindsay andF Crouse New Play" should convince us of, it will be that it was "Life With...

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November 5, 1948 THE COMMONWEAL of a matin6e idol. Subsequently, she is married by this arch-villain and thereafter her doom is to become not only a good actress, but also to be haunted into...

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72 THE COMMONWEAL October 29, t948 man, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Barnet, Tommy Dorsey and many, many others who really go to town in a couple of scenes and prove the picture's title. As a...

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October 22, 1948 T H E COMMONWEAL 4I The Screen The Girls Take Over UR heroines this week, no matter what else one o may say about them, are certainly not run-of-the-mill. The central...

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October 15, I948 THE COMMONWEAL I3 onist--Edward, My Son--never appearing at all There is naturally no conclusion to be drawn from the doings; there are no characters; there is no line. There...

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THE SCREEN Love Through the Ages THE remarkable thing about "Rachel and the Stranger" is that in spite of its thin, innocuous plot it is still such an entertaining movie. Set in the Northwest...

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The Screen Two for the Money WE ARE fortunate this week in having a couple of imports to consider-imports that are so good that they should cause Hollywood film makers to look to their...

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THE SCREEN Gold Is Where You Find It THERE's a pleasant surprise in store for you in "The Luck of the Irish." You might expect this title to be attached to another of those technicolored-green...

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The Stage & Screen "him" THERE are two good reasons why this early e. e. cummings medley is nightly packing the Province-town Playhouse: the first will be that the play is hilarious; and the...

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The Screen Keep Slugging BY THE very nature of movies, they do their best when they portray action. Unfortunately, action in films has almost come to mean violence, and right now there is...

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The Screen And Takes Your Choice NO ONE can say that the movies aren't offering a varied program these days; this week's selections range from light fantasy to realest of realism, and you have...

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The Screen Murder Murder Everywhere THREE NEW arrivals on our screens use the theme of murder and guilt in a most extraordinary way. From Germany has been imported "Murderers Among Us" the first...

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The Screen Physician, Heal Thyself THE REMARKABLE thing about "Mine Own Executioner" is that, for a change, a movie treats psychology, and its allied branches psychiatry and as a grown-up...

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The Stage Note from Yaddo CANADA LEE has been playing Othello here at the Spa Theatre in Saratoga, and since there is noise of a Broadway run, the show is worth discussion. I write discussion...

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THE SCREEN Back to Violence IT SEEMS a bit strange to return to New York, after a delightful vacation in cool, placid Colorado where the most rugged aspect was the scenery, and to start right in...

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THE SCREEN Return to Yesterday MOVIES have always liked looking into the past for plots and settings, but just because they do look back doesn't mean they are necessarily escapist. Of the three...

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The Screen Where Men Are Men PERHAPS it's because I'm looking forward to a vacation in Colorado in a couple of weeks, or perhaps it's because outdoor films offer such good opportunity for movement...

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The Stage S. S. Glencairn THE CRITICAL cries of delight greeting Jose Ferrer's less than mediocre production of the four short Eugene O'Neill plays seem to me entirely mystifying. Certainly this...

THE SCREEN (May 1948)

The Stage Hope's The Thing "AN EVENING OF COMEDY" is what Ray A Dooley and Eddie Dowling called their uptown importation of Richard Harrity's short plays. And in a sense, their subtitle was...

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THE SCREEN Murder He Says! FILMS of mystery, violence and crime frequently provide escape for world-weary movie-goers who feel they have to avoid the real issues once in a while. As such they...

THE SCREEN (May 1948)

The Stage The Cup of Trembling I'M AFRAID Louis Paul's dramatization of his own novel, "Breakdown," does not add anything to the late spate of alcoholic literature. The affair concerns a...

THE SCREEN (April 1948)

THE SCREEN Wild Thyme NEXT TO AN exciting mystery or horror film there's nothing so relaxing as a good comedy. But what makes one man laugh makes the next guy scowl. I have listed below a few...

THE SCREEN (March 1948)

For the Fun of It MOVIEGOERS who have been clamoring for laughs should get their fill from this batch of new movies. These who like their comedies on the sentimental side will find "/ Remember...

THE SCREEN (March 1948)

More Deadly Than the Male OF THREE new films, produced in Hollywood, France and England, which definitely go out of their way to prove that women are not the weaker sex, the French movie...

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Bagdad on the Subway NEW YORK CITY provides the locale of the three movies reviewed this week. In fact, one of them, "The Naked City," is New York, and the camera wanders continuously up and ...

THE SCREEN (March 1948)

522 How the Other Half Lives ADMIRERS of foreign films are certainly getting their fill these days. New imports are arriving every week, and such good ones as "Shoe-Shine," "Open City" and...

THE SCREEN (February 1948)

495 Similarity Is Intentional IF HOLLYWOOD continues to make good movies using actual backgrounds, it may soon win even those detractors who sneer at the American product. And furthermore it...

THE SCREEN (February 1948)

This Thing Called Love 1OVE, in the movies, at least, and frequently in real -* life, makes people behave very strangely. Several new films gang up on this idea and work like everything to prove...

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448 Sex with English Subtitles BRACE yourself for a new batch of foreign films. They have been pouring into this country recently, and whether or not you approve their absence of Hollywood...

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424 Shadows and Substance IT IS AMAZING how seldom the movies go in for realism—the one property they are best qualified to display. But when a director does employ honest realism plus...

THE SCREEN (January 1948)

399 Can Spring Be Far Behind? WINTER has rushed in, and so have a lot of new films; but none of them are as impressive as the weather. However, for the record, here are a few notes on the...

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373 My Wife, Poor Wretch TWO VERY BRIGHT and shining new movies, that positively glitter for their production values, seem to come to the same conclusion, although by quite different methods:...

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35° Take It or Leave It NONE of the pictures reviewed this week are good enough to make you brave snow, sleet or rain in an effort to get to a cinema palace. "High Wall" is the most likely...

THE SCREEN (January 1948)

Better Than Most IT HAS come to that time of the year ; and once again &I am harassed by the word "best" floating in the air! Although I object to any film, or any ten, being labeled "best," I...

THE SCREEN (January 1948)

indeed, than Austria's. Instrumentally, America's part was obviously less bad "politics." The case for the Tragedy of Europe is weakened by an apparent assumption, especially before outsiders,...

THE SCREEN (December 1947)

"Down the Arches of the Years" IN SPITE of the film's obvious faults, my enthusiasm for "The Fugitive" is so great that I rind it difficult to review. Its photography is among the most beautiful...

THE SCREEN (December 1947)

256 Escaping the New Look NO DOUBT there is some connection between the current avalanche of costume pictures and the studios' desire to avoid making too many modern movies with clothes that...

THE SCREEN (December 1947)

Imports THE ARRIVAL in this country of an unusually large number of films from abroad should once again make Hollywood (and us) aware that American pictures, though technically best, are by no...

THE SCREEN (December 1947)

Sound and Fury WHAT WITH the sudden rush of recent releases, I seem to have got behind in my reviews; so, in order to keep up with a fast-moving Hollywood world, I am writing this week a series...

THE SCREEN (November 1947)

i?5 The Screen Greeks Had a Word FAR BE IT from me to disparage any efforts that anyone may make to raise the standards of movies either morally or artistically. I am sure that The...

THE SCREEN (November 1947)

Not for Escapists THIS WEEK'S three new movies show that a film can be thoughtful (and even have a propaganda line) and still be good entertainment. Not once during the long course of...

THE SCREEN (November 1947)

The Film's the Thing NDW THAT "the first phase of the committee's investigation of communism in the motion picture industry" (the phrasing is Chairman Thomas's, not mine) is over, it might...

THE SCREEN (November 1947)

Something New, Something Borrowed THE MAIN thing to be said about this week's screen offerings is that they are different. Whether this difference works out entirely to the audience's...

THE SCREEN (October 1947)

THE COM author's grotmdplan. They are too cardboard to be real, and yet not gay enough to be comment. David Folkes's costumes: o.k. In respect of Mr. Evans's announced intention to pre- sent the...

THE SCREEN (October 1947)

October I7, I94 7 THE COMMONWEAL I7 The Quick and the Dead y OU MAY wonder as I did, when you see "'Magic Town, why a public opinion gatherer hasn't been the hero of a movie before this. His...

THE SCREEN (October 1947)

October i o, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 623 and experts in the present instance, could fail to land in the exact soup in which they are...

THE SCREEN (September 1947)

598 THE COMMONWEAL October 3, 1947 minding that Anderson's play was based on the Sacco- adaptation of...

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September 5, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL SOI that at least a half-million infants could have been saved if American aid had been made...

THE SCREEN (August 1947)

476 THE COMMONWEAL August 29, 1947 of their title is a Man, but they seem so unsure why, that Frieda is a...

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454 THE COMMONWEAL August 22, 1947 conquering the infectious diseases which in years original, for...

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428 THE COMMONWEAL August 15, 1947 commercialized gambling came from the Pool Operators also untrue....

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386 THE COMMONWEAL August I, 1947 mission draws thoughtful as well as casual money, and but adds that he is...

THE SCREEN (July 1947)

3S8 THE COMMONWEAL J111Y 25, 1947 affair...

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THE COMMONWEAL July 18, 1947 332 may also be called a program of economic, social, and political...

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-Walter Winches July II, 1947 THE...

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286 THE COMMONWEAL July 4, 1947 purpose like the good of souls? That will not take would -be...

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262 THE COMMONWEAL June 27, 1947 that morality actually played a determining part in the fight it out in...

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240 THE COMMONWEAL June 20, 1947 that of the many who would agree with Mr. Sylvester, union in...

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216 THE COMMONWEAL June 13, '947 ...

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June .6, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL ...

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142 THE COMMONWEAL May 23, 1947 firms that make whatever sells. We employ carpenters Although the film...

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118 THE COMMONWEAL May 16, 1947 in Europe to which to send food packages. Conditions ferred more of...

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May 2, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL 67 The Stage &...

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38 THE COMMONWEAL April 2S, iq+7 suit that far too many individual instances of in- herself and for...

THE SCREEN (July 1947)

L-6 THE COMMONWEAL COMMONWEAL April 18, 1947 plus Joseph Buloff, do very well by the business, but this of the wishes of...

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The Stage & Screen 647 Boys Will Be Boys PERHAPS we don't realize how fortunate we are in this country to be able to see foreign movies— i not only the good English productions that have been...

THE SCREEN (April 1947)

614 Laughing With and At SATIRE is a field in which movies seldom tread, and when they do they are likely to run toward burlesque. Three new tries are definitely worth your attention for...

THE SCREEN (March 1947)

The Stage & Screen Days of Our Youth OH, YOUTH, YOUTH!—and the way movie* usually portray it! But every now and then a film does catch the joy and enthusiasm of youth. "The Red House,"...

THE SCREEN (March 1947)

565 The Stage & Screen 566 For You and You and You VARIETY is the spice of this week's program, which aims to offer something for everyone. For the realist, and especially those moviegoers...

THE SCREEN (March 1947)

539 The Stage & Screen Revolt of the Oater "OATER" is what you call a "western" or the old fashioned horse opera if you wear bobby sox. Or perhaps even if you aren't a Frank Sinatra...

THE SCREEN (March 1947)

518 519 International IN TELLING the story of the atom bomb, the movies are indeed treading on dangerous ground. But trust Hollywood to rush in. "The Beginning Or the End" makes the first stab...

THE SCREEN (February 1947)

THE COMMONWEAL February 28, I947 writing seemed to me profoundly moving. At this moment, the business quite suddenly took on the large dimension, the human significance, beyond the records. But...

THE SCREEN (February 1947)

469 The Stage & Screen Weaker Sex, Indeed MELODRAMAS continue to pour in. This week's quota brings us three in which pretty actresses portray women whose codes of behavior are by no means as...

THE SCREEN (February 1947)

445 The Stage & Screen 446 It's Good for You PRACTICALLY every film has some sort of propaganda in it. During the war we saw many pictures that attempted to influence our attitudes on...

THE SCREEN (February 1947)

422 The Stage & Screen 423 Everyman's Choice WHAT this week's reviews lack in timeliness (mainly owing to the fact that I was out of town for ten days and was late in getting caught up on...

THE SCREEN (January 1947)

The Stage & Screen 397 Look, Ma, I'm Acting MOVIEGOERS whose preferences run to melodrama peppered with violence will find a large assortment of films of this type coming up...

THE SCREEN (January 1947)

375 The Stage & Screen Nature Is Beautiful—and Cruel A LTHOUGH I don't agree with M-G-M about 1947 being "the year of 'The Yearling,1" I still think that this is a good picture. It should...

THE SCREEN (January 1947)

The Stage & Screen 351 Men, Women and Nobody IF, AMONG the pictures reviewed this week, "13 Rue Madeleine" was designed for men, and "The Secret Heart" for women, and "Abie's Irish Rose" for...

THE SCREEN (January 1947)

325 The Stage & Screen Here We Go Again IN THE BUSY life of a reviewer there comes a pause in the year's occupation when he is allowed to stop and look back. Because it is customary to...

THE SCREEN (January 1947)

304 The Screen Treat for Discriminators AT YEAR'S END, as if to say farewell to 1946 with a bang or welcome 1947 with a crash, three firstrate films arrived to grace our screens. Because each...

THE SCREEN (December 1946)

281 The Screen Queens in the Parlor ONCE AGAIN some of the brightest female stars are up to their old tricks and glittering like mad in pictures that could or could not be improved by...

THE SCREEN (December 1946)

Not in My Sock It is amazing that a movie as dull as "Till the Clouds Roll By" could be made with music as lively as Jerome Kern's. The picture gets off to a good start with that night in 1927...

THE SCREEN (December 1946)

Pursuit of Happiness rpWO OF THE year's biggest films have just had 1 splashy world premieres in New York City. These openings, attended by stars, socialites, a great deal of fanfare and a large...

THE SCREEN (December 1946)

202 Look Away Look Away BIGGEST surprise about Walt Disney's new movie, in which he uses straight film technique to tell the main story, is that the sequences with live characters are more...

THE SCREEN (November 1946)

Thrill Well and Serve WHEN DISCUSSING new films whose plots are well tinged with mystery, the reviewer finds himself at disadvantage. He must talk around the movies without actually saying anything...

THE SCREEN (November 1946)

I46 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, x946 unfaithful with a handsome Egyptian (Charles Korvin) who appealed to her baser nature while her husband was digging in the tomb of a pharaoh. So greatly is...

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himself by not being able to reconcile the company's efforts to make four beans grow where three grew before with the policy of destroying coffee to maintain the price. From then on Vivian just...

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are bright, and the make-believe situations are at least make believe for adults. As the hero, Dan Duryea is a pleasant departure from the handsome lads who usually play in this type of concoction,...

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these in the scene built around a political science professor (nicely played by Roman Bohnen) who tells off Chase and Ace with: "Government is a sacred trust, not to be worn as an adornment, or in...

THE SCREEN (October 1946)

little known up to now, turns in a real performance that has caught the mannerisms and style of the famous blackface singer and that is stirring for its sincerity of characterization. Skolsky was...

THE SCREEN (October 1946)

16 The Stage & Screen Adventure on Land, Air and Sea PICTURES related to the late war continue to turn up from time to time. Perhaps this is as it should be: to remind us that the winning of...

The Screen (October 1946)

October I I, I 9 4 6 THE COMMONWEAL 623 reading (admittedly vast). Much of what he says is stimulating and arousing (someone should follow up his adverse criticism of Meredith's "Essay on...

The Screen (October 1946)

October 4, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 597 Communications REPUDIATION IN ST. LOUIS Rockaway Park, N. Y. "T"O ,the Editors: Mr. Frank Trager's long letter I (August 23) should have a better reply than...

The Screen (September 1946)

516 T H E C 0 M Tapachula and had managed to retain his sense of humor even in the heat, and along with it adopt a native child. We were quite a caravan going toward tile bridge and the border,...

The Screen (September 1946)

504 THE COMMONWEAL September 6, I946 The principal charge these supposed liberals brought against both Mr. Wheeler and Mr. LaFollette was that before Pearl Harbor they had opposed American...

The Screen (August 1946)

THE COMMONWEAL August 23, xQ46 Certainly it Ksmas to me we must examine the iasue of f r ~ ~eech. We understand that in this country, at any rate, free speech is a right conferred upon us by the...

The Screen (August 1946)

August z6, x946 THE COMMONWEAL 433 Party by a 2 to x majority and relegating the Liberal Party to a status of insignificance. While in the United States, when President Truman asked for support...

The Screen (August 1946)

408 THE COMMONWEAL August 9, I946 The Screen Seething With F ILM MAKERS are doing their best these days to give our emotions a workout. In drama after drama, regardless of the wide variety of...

The Screen (August 1946)

August 2, z946 THE COMMONWEAL 383 Dog Days in the East T HE LATEST contribution,of California to Broadway is not a movie but a legitimate" play, which ran for 86 weeks in Los Angeles, 62 weeks...

The Screen (July 1946)

360 THE COMMONWEAL July 26, I946 The term "combination" is symbolic also of combining city and country; religion and education ; security and freedom; discipline and liberty; cooperation and...

The Screen (July 1946)

July x9, x946 THE COMMONWEAL 335 That night of April 23, I944 was the worst I have ever passed. I was unatble to close my eyes. I rose at five and waited in the office until nine o'clock. The...

The Screen (July 1946)

308 THE COMMONWEAL July 12, 1946 The People's Committee came into existence because a psychiatrist's wife had the courage to write a novel, a novel of protest. "They Walk In Darkness,"...

The Screen (July 1946)

July 5, I946 THE COMMONWEAL 285 departed, when working-class parties thought they could not get along without leisured-class leaders. M. L6on Blum with his comfortable fortune, his good looks...

The Screen (June 1945)

June 28, x946 T t t E COMMONWEAL 26I stand the deep and real reasons for most of the strikes-strikes wholly unconnected with communists. Nor do I think that trade unions are operating, or...

The Screen (June 1946)

z38 T H E I The Stage Screen COMMONWEAL June zl, x946 i] there, but I believe I will add that too, a.s being, somehow, perfectly Americanly funny. For Mr. Welles himself--Dick Fix, the...

The Screen (June 1946)

zI6 THE COMMONWEAL June x4, x946 wise good Christians completely ignore this stricture when brought face to face with the consequences of racial discrimination and blithely continue to...

THE SCREEN (June 1946)

I92 THE COMMONWEAL June 7, x946 i l l 1 Scree. II r ,,~ [ ' r ~ - " ~ T ' 1 " I . . . . . . i U Oedipus with The Critic THE Old Vic's bill, matching classic tragedy ,double with Sheridan s...

THE SCREEN (May 1946)

May 3], x946 THE several stock devices of type and siCuation which he employs in this first business. AH'hough indeed the physical requirements of h~s script have successfully tapped...

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May 24, 1946 THE COMM ONWEAL I43 preparatory, most o~ten an accompaniment; and Cower Parks's simple system ox r heraldic drapes and steps, plus the muted colors o,f Roger Furse's velvets and...

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May I7, I946 THE COMMONWEAL II9 as the Jewish boy definitely worth the ticket, but otherwise the unintentional irony of the title seems rather to underline the hte of the Belasco this season....

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96 THE COMMONWEAL May to, z946 is a dangler, it appears to at least one editor of THE COMMONWEAL, that all these fine words sometimes" add up in quick reading to "that,, fine, warm feeling in...

THE SCREEN (May 1946)

72 THE COMMONWEAL May 3, t946 Green Flames, the Christian Democratic patriotic forces, outnumbered the partisans of the actionists, the communism and the socialists three to one. Italy can...

THE SCREEN (April 1946)

April 26, ~946 THE COMMONWEAL 47 The Screen The Soldier Then and Now IN SPITE of its coming late to American screens, i "'A Yank in London" is worth your attention. Made in England during the...

THE SCREEN (April 1946)

t6 THE COMMONWEAL April z 9, :946 because ~o many are involved (original play, adaptation, script, etc.) that the long credit list sounds like that parody called "Lobby Song" which Kaye sang in...

A Shamrock Grows in Scotland (April 1946)

653 The Screen A Shamrock Grows in Scotland NOT SINCE Freddie Bartholomew won our ohs and ahs as young David Copperfield has there been such an appealing young 'un as eight-year-old Robbie...

Drama-Not So Mellow (April 1946)

622 Drama—Not So Mellow EVERY NOW and then Hollywood acquires ownership of a book or play that proves too much for the boys. Sometimes they hold this property to let the idea simmer for a...

The Open City (March 1946)

The Open City WITHOUT any doubt, the most extraordinary movie on our screens today is "Open City." This forceful Italian film proves again that the power of cinema lies not in glossy production or...

Perils of Paulette (March 1946)

March 8, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 525 The Stage & Screen 526 THE COMMONWEAL March 8, 1946 Perils of Paulette FIRST thing she knows, Paulette Goddard is going to find that she is being cast...

THE SCREEN (March 1946)

5°5 The Screen Facts Can Be Fun WHEN BRIDGE PLAYERS finally realized, during those early days of contract bridge, that every hand is not a slam hand, they learned to relax, enjoy the game...

THE SCREEN (February 1946)

Crime Does Not OBVIOUSLY acting on the dictum that a thrill a day keeps the psychiatrist away, the movies go to town this week in trying to put psychiatrists out of business. Thrills, horror,...

THE SCREEN (February 1946)

456 THE COMMONWEAL February 15, 1946 The Stage & Screen February 15, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 457 Nine Days Old YOU CAN take your choice in the current crop of dramas; there's a type for...

THE SCREEN (February 1946)

February 8, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 429 The Stage & Screen 430 THE COMMONWEAL February 8, 1946 While Women Weep ONE would get an odd impression of the drama of our times if he were to judge...

Celluloid Humor (February 1946)

February 1, 1946 THE COMMONWEAL 405 The Stage & Screen 406 THE COMMONWEAL February 1, 1946 Celluloid Humor /TpHERE have been some pathetic attempts at comedy A on our screens lately....

THE SCREEN (January 1946)

382 THE COMMONWEAL January 25, 1946 The Screen No Discharge in the War HOLLYWOOD hag various ways of dishing up drama; it would be fun to sit in on the studio conferences that determine the...

"It All Depends on You" (January 1946)

357 The Screen "It All Depends on You" YOUR TASTE in musical films is as good as the next man's so don't let anyone tell you that this or that song-and-dance item is a must. A whole raft...

Artists on Art The Death of Virgil Outside Eden Men Without Guns Trial Balance The Question of Henry James The Short Stories of Henry James Agriculture in an Unstable Economy (January 1946)

More Books of the Week Artists on Art. Edited by Robert Goldwater and Marc Treves. Pantheon. $4.50. THE SUBJECT of this book, the editors state in the introduction, is the artist not as writer,...

Summing Up (January 1946)

336 Summing Up NOW is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their movies. And the surprising thing about 1945's list of films is the large number and high quality of its good...

THE SCREEN (December 1945)

December 28, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 287 The Stage & Screen 288 THE COMMONWEAL December 28, 1945 Drama with a Capital D SINCE FEW authors of a sequel hit the same jackpot that ran so...

Made in England (December 1945)

December 21, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 263 The Stage & Screen 264 THE COMMONWEAL December 21, 1945 Made in England SINCE the English are getting a little sensitive about their films,...

The Liberal Tradition-The Cossacks-Glory for Me-The Friendly Persuasion-Gold in the Streets (December 1945)

December 21, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 267 More Books of the Week The Liberal Tradition. William Aylott Orton. Yale. $3-50. THIS WORK is not a polemic in the passionate style. It is rather...

Meet Your Ancestors-Soviet Far Eastern Policy 1931 to 1945-The Peacock Sheds His Tail-Mexican Village-Socialism Looks Forward-The Shield of the Valiant-William Howard Taft-Chungking Listening Post-Beethoven-Hercules My Shipmate-Nine Strings to Your Bow-Eastward in Eden (December 1945)

Books of the Week Meet Your Ancestors: A Biography of Primitive Man. Roy Chapman Andrews. Viking. $3.00. THE WORK purports to be a streamlined version of "what is known to date from actual...

The Power of the Movie (December 1945)

The Power of the Movie NO ONE is particularly shocked anymore to be told that movies influence our lives. There are plenty of examples besides the obvious ones (like Clark Gable and the...

THE SCREEN (December 1945)

204 THE COMMONWEAL December 7, 1945 The Stage & Screen December 7, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 205 Hit! EVERY now and then Hollywood...

No Fear to Tread (November 1945)

168 THE COMMONWEAL November 30, 194.5 The Stage & Screen 170 THE COMMONWEAL November 30, 1945 No Fear to Tread WHEN I SAW "Yolanda and the Thieff' there was a whole row of bobby sockers...

THE SCREEN (November 1945)

141 With Chocolates, Cheese & Watches ANOTHER assuring sign of the war's end is the reappearance on the market of imported goods. And not the least of these is foreign films. During the war,...

THE SCREEN (November 1945)

November 16, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 115 The Stage & Screen 116 THE COMMONWEAL November 16, 1945 And a Bottle of Rum 'T^HE main points in favor of "The Spanish Main" are A its lush...

THE SCREEN (November 1945)

94 THE COMMONWEAL November 9, 1945 The Screen Grue for Grownups IT IS GOOD to see a couple of mystery films that were directed by intelligent movie makers and designed for adults. Perhaps...

THE SCREEN (November 1945)

70 Puck Was Right VERY often what makes one person laugh is not what makes another person laugh; something that sends me into stitches may leave you cold—or vice versa. I don't agree, however,...

THE SCREEN (October 1945)

18 Walk, Don't Run SOME people find that crime-and-detection films clear the air and give temporary release that makes audiences think better. Perhaps this is so because the mysteries,...

THE SCREEN (October 1945)

Fairy Tales THE MOVIE version of Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" is being advertised with such come-ons as "his naughtiest comedy," "in Blushing Technicolor." Of course Mr. Coward can't be blamed for...

THE SCREEN (September 1945)

September 2 I , 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 553 KAPPO PHELAN. Test of Victory IT WAS inevitable that there would be made a docu- mentary film on the Allies' western invasion of Europe. But it was by no...

THE SCREEN (September 1945)

September 14, 1945 THE 'COMMONWEAL 527 O'Brien have filled the film with the wonderful awe of growing up on a farm. Selma learns about the cruelty of death and the joy of birth; she learns from her...

THE SCREEN (September 1945)

502 THE COMMONWEAL September 7, 1945 The Screen "Rome Wasn't Burnt in a Day), NEVER before has music been featured as the piece de resistance in a fiction movie as it is in this new version of...

THE SCREEN (August 1945)

August 31, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 479 The Screen Mixing Fun and World Politics W HEN a man is over 21 he just doesn't absorb things easily—especially book learning. Max Wharton realizes this, and...

THE SCREEN (August 1945)

August 24, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 453 the other, it hurt almost intolerably to keep alive a memory of the past and hope for the future while enduring a present which seemed possible only under the...

THE SCREEN (August 1945)

August 17, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 431 ing that the US, by combining firmness with true understanding, work out a way of living in the same world as Russia and in refusing to be stampeded, in the name...

THE SCREEN (August 1945)

406 THE COMMONWEAL August To, 1945 Nonobstante Mr. Attwater, primogeniture is still generally a fact in England. And, except in the case of certain Scottish peerages, of the royal family...

THE SCREEN (August 1945)

382 THE COMMONWEAL August 3, 1945 On the Towns W HEN a movie is as good as "Anchors Aweigh," one pulls for it to be perfect. The film is a light concoction of pleasant music and surprises that...

THE SCREEN (July 1945)

358 THE COMMONWEAL July 27, 1945 The Screen Unsunny Italy TWO NEW movies are showing an aspect of Italy that is not the country of Dante, Boccacio or tourists, and is not likely to be covered by...

THE SCREEN (July 1945)

The Screen Ninety in the Shade A MAZING is the word for some of the concoctions I that Hollywood thinks up as escapist entertainment. During these days when a tropical heat wave is likely to...

THE SCREEN (July 1945)

July 13, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 309 The Screen Flows Like Water I T SEEMS impossible for the movies to tell a story about Orientals without going in for the wildest kind of melodrama. We have seen...

THE SCREEN (July 1945)

286 THE COMMONWEAL July 6, 1945 The Screen Fascinating Rhythms S o GREAT is my enthusiasm for George Gershwin's music that my huzzahs for his film biography are likely to hit the skies. For,...

THE SCREEN (June 1945)

June 29, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 263 a chronicle not devised for the stage. But this production presented only nine scenes, the most startling of which—the Two Bakers—was ignored; and another—The...

THE SCREEN (June 1945)

June 22, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 239 The Wonder Boys IN THIS week's bill, three of Hollywood's leading males are starred in three very different pictures. You better be sure, before you go, that you...

THE SCREEN (June 1945)

June 15, '945 THE COMMONWEAL 213 L The Stage & Screen Hollywood Pinafore VICTOR MOORE in black and white, Shirley Booth in white and amethyst, constitute, I should say, the high-spots of the...

THE SCREEN (June 1945)

192 THE COMMONWEAL June 8, 1945 The Lampoon in the Window OVIES have taken to kidding themselves and each other a lot lately. One wouldn't exactly call this a trend, but it certainly is another...

THE SCREEN (June 1945)

June I, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 167 Several millions of these ex-servicemen will inevitably be guided by Catholic leadership. Father Coughlinsclerical and lay—will reappear on the scene. Will they lead...

THE SCREEN (May 1945)

140 THE COMMONWEAL May 25, 1945 Communications PROGRESS THROUGH TRADITION Philadelphia, Pa. TO the Editors: May I add a postscript to Anna Hellersberg-Wendriner's article, "Progress Through...

THE SCREEN (May 1945)

I18 THE COMMONWEAL May 18, 1945 Communications GERMANY Charleston, S. C. TO the Editors: Congratulations on Father Reinhold's courageous letter, "Germany," in the May 4 issue. Would that the...

THE SCREEN (May 1945)

94 THE COMMONWEAL May II, 1945 Broadway these days seems to be the result of Hollywood time-is-money pressure, it takes more than pressure to fit a play to a major theme on the actual...

THE SCREEN (May 1945)

72 THE COMMONWEAL May 4, 1945 What! No Mickey Mouse? T HAT cinema is a borrowing art no one denies. Nor does anyone particularly object. But when the movies forget that they have an art and...

THE SCREEN (April 1945)

48 THE COMMONWEAL April 27, 1945 PAUL KINIERY. The Screen Ah 1 Youth, Youth IT WAS inevitable that the movies would tackle the subject of the lonely soldier in the big city. His story was crying...

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18 THE COMMONWEAL April 20, 1945 recall, accept, or impel other figures, subject; things. It is of course no more astonishing that Garcia Lorca has been only twice before played in this country...

The Girls and Their Affairs (April 1945)

648 THE COMMONWEAL April 13, 1945 The Stage & Screen April 13, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 649 The Girls and Their Affairs EVERY now and then Hollywood snatches a bit of fluff, dresses it up...

Man's Reach (April 1945)

624 THE COMMONWEAL April 6, 1945 The Stage & Screen 626 THE COMMONWEAL April 6, 1945 Man's Reach THE THEME of "The Corn Is Green" moved me so greatly that I find myself quite...

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March 30, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 589 The Stage & Screen 590 THE COMMONWEAL March 30, 1945 Lo! The English Man! WHEN the English make a honey of a picture, they make indeed a honey of a...

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March 23, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 565 The Stage & Screen 566 THE COMMONWEAL March 23, 1945 Soldier's Return THE PROBLEMS of uniformed men in adjusting themselves to civilian life, either...

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March 16, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 543 The Screen Picture of Culture and Corruption IN attempting to film "The Picture of Dorian Gray," M-G-M set for itself a difficult task. On the...

It Grows (March 1945)

It Grows THE WONDER of it is that such a good movie was made from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn." Betty Smith packed into her sprawling, almost formless novel a plethora of incident that made the...

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Mona Smiled AGAIN we have one of those weeks in which one man's joke is another man's boredom. Three new comedies are raising their supposedly funny heads. At "Here Come the Co-Eds," I laughed...

Further Studies in Grue (February 1945)

Further Studies in Grue HOLLYWOOD'S current cycle of murder films and mysteries is reaching its zenith. This type of cinema has always been popular with movie makers, but never before have...

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45 ~ THE COMMONWEAL February 16, 1945 hams in this film almost to the point of burlesque); as far as I can make out there is no record that Elsner ac-companied Chopin to Paris or battled with...

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War and War IT ISN'T entirely fair to compare a documentary film like "The Fighting Lady" with a feature picture like "Objective Burma" because the documentary was made on the spot without...

THE SCREEN (February 1945)

THE COMMONWEAL February 2, I945 lessly set by Richard Ruchtarik and hideously costumed by Ladislas Czettel, only the music came through with any degree of clarity and wit. I could not, for...

Harvest (January 1945)

January 12, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 331 The Stage & Screen Sing Out, Sweet Land! TWO MUSICALS in the week and it strikes me their difference is perhaps even more notable than their separate...

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January 5, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 303 The Screen Many Mansions FAITH and humility are the main themes in the story of Francis Chisholm. "The Keys of the Kingdom" tells this story from his...

Escape via Berlin China to Me Forever Amber The Middle Kingdom Armistice 1918 Frances Willard Take Them Up Tenderly The Development of Higher Education in Mexico (December 1944)

280 THE COMMONWEAL December 29, 1944 More Books of the Week Escape via Berlin. Jose Antonio de Aguirre. Macmillan. $3.00. THERE HAS been a wide variety of ways of escaping from the hands...

Hollywood's Reply to Dec. 7 (December 1944)

December 22, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 253 The Stage & Screen 254 THE COMMONWEAL December 22, 1944 A Bell for Adano THE THING you first think of, in retrospect, is its technical...

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230 THE COMMONWEAL December I5, 1944 operatives to enjoin the co-operatives from acquiring the company on grounds substantially similar to those ad-vanced before the Commission. Temporary...

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December 8, 1944 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 207 v particularly the Hallowe'en episode in which the O'Brien glrl scares you and herself to death. At times the action gets a bit cute, but Minnelli...

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November 24, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 151 The Stage & Screen Crime Waits for No Man REVIEWERS are placed at a distinct disadvantage in writing about films, books or plays that are...

Depends on Your Mood (November 1944)

November 17, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 123 The Stage & Screen November 17, 1944 THE C O M M O N W E A L 125 Depends on Your...

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102 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1944 The Stage & Screen 104 THE COMMONWEAL November 10, 1944 Giant's Unlimited Strength THE LOCALE of King Vidor's new epic of America extends...

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November 3, 1944 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 71 The Stage & Screen 72 T H E C O M M O N W K A L November 3, 1944 Hit Hard FROM the beginning of the motion picture history, movies...

What are the Young Girls Saying? (October 1944)

October 27, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 37 The Stage & Screen 38 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1944 What Are the Young Girls Saying? LAURA, who is played by Gene Tierney in the pic ture of...

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THE COMMONWEAL October 20, 1944 The Stage & Screen October 20, 1944 THE COMMONWEAL 19 Perhaps—For Pastime EVERY NOW and then appears a film that is excellently produced and well...

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So-So EXCEPT for a two-reel short made by the Marines, the films this week are nothing to warrant putting aside your bridge game, reading, knitting, political discussion or even your radio...

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Ivory Tower Falling IT IS GOOD to see a movie that was designed for the adult mind, a movie that never once panders to popular tastes and box office, and that sets a high standard which it...

THE SCREEN (September 1944)

568 THE COMMONWEAL September 29, I944 such works connected with or affecting the carrying out of the treaty, and without regard to the established rights on the river of states and communities...

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Gary and Cary 'TWERE USED to be a lot of people (and there still JL may be some, for all I know; at least I don't run across them any more) who get the names of Gary Cooper and Cary Grant mixed...

THE SCREEN (September 1944)

Lest We Forget SINCE, in the past month, there have been fewer Hollywood releases covering the grimmer aspects of the war, it might be well to look at twe new films that shy away from none of...

THE SCREEN (September 1944)

Pease Porridge Cold THERE'S no accounting for tastes—especially in the line of humor. Some audiences like rowdy farce; some prefer mellow joviality; some go for burlesque and satire; others...

THE SCREEN (September 1944)

The Screen Vivid Escape WHEN YOU'RE going in for escape, as I always say to Mrs. Q, you may as well go the whole hog. Now there are being released two new escapist films that really go the...

THE SCREEN (August 1944)

Hail the Conquering Sturges THE simultaneous release of two Preston Sturges films provides an interesting contrast in the work of this director. The comparison however isn't quite fair—for...

THE SCREEN (August 1944)

14 Points and More IN SPITE of its radio advertising (which has been of a commercial type that might scare anyone away from the film) "Wilson' is a must for everyone's list. Woodrow Wilson has...

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Heavy Dragon; Flippant Ghost THE WAR appears in two new pictures this week. In one it is rightfully portrayed in its most serious and horrific aspects; in the other it is used only as...

THE SCREEN (August 1944)

The Screen While You Are Gone, Dear IT WAS inevitable that one of the studios would make the definitive American-home-front movie. And perhaps it was fortunate that David O. Selznick, with his...

THE SCREEN (July 1944)

The Screen The Voice, Hair, $64 Question YOU MAY have seen "Room Service" on the stage when George Abbott's production was whooping it up, or in the first film version through which the...

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The Screen Pippa Passes JUST AS if to prove that all their contemporary fables, romances and contes don't have to be used as background for musical films, Hollywood presents a couple of...

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The Screen Go! IF POSSIBLE I should like to urge all the 85 million weekly moviegoers (that was the last figure given out, although it does seem fabulous) to attend the latest War Department...

THE SCREEN (July 1944)

W. Somerset Maugham W SOMERSET MAUGHAM has turned up in • literature, theater and cinema this year without increasing his stature in any of these arts. In spite of the critics who...

THE SCREEN (June 1944)

Men Are Such Beasts IT IS obvious that when Jules Levey decided to make a film production of "The Henry Ape," he paid no attention to the stage directions that accompanied Eugene O'Neill's...

THE SCREEN (June 1944)

Toujours Gai DETERMINED to give audiences food for song and laughter, the movies pop up with four new musicals. While these can't be said to vibrate with cheer from beginning to end, at least a...

THE SCREEN (June 1944)

The Screen Pipes Through Which the Breath of Pan T.VO NEW WAR films typify the latest cinema trends in portraying today's heroes. "The Story of Dr. Wassell" glorifies one man of heroic stature....

THE STAGE (June 1944)

The Stage & Screen Career Angel ASIDE from one fine and relentless characterization— that of Ronald Telfer as Brother Fidelis—the move to the big street has done less than nothing for...

THE SCREEN (June 1944)

That Boat on the Styx Again ONE OF the first books I ever reviewed was Sutton Vane's "Outward Bound." I was quite impressed with this pleasant, rather sentimental tale about a group of people on...

THE SCREEN (May 1944)

The Screen Murder He Says! IT IS disconcerting to see how an interesting psychological horror play like "Angel Street" can lose much of its effectiveness when blown up into a big,...

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Prophet Without Honor JOHN FARROW, who gave us "Wake Island," one of the first and best pictures about our fighting men in this war, now gives us the first really serious picture about the...

THE SCREEN (May 1944)

PHILIP T. HARTUNG. Books of the Week McCarthy of Wisconsin. Edward A. Fitzpatrick. Columbia. $3.50. *" I "*HERE WAS, for me, a nostalgic quality about this A book. It reminded me of the days...

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62 THE COMMONWEAL May 5, x944 tallest young actress I have seen) a symbolical device tedmically permiss~ie perhaps--in that the author has to end his play somehow--but otherwise, I should...

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Your Way Is My Way THERE'S quite a nice treat coming up soon for them what likes a good sentimental movie. In fact audiences who shed a gentle tear at "The Human Comedy" are likely to drop two...

THE SCREEN (April 1944)

ALL RIGHT," says Hollywood, which always -tV. keeps on eye on such things and has to be six jumps ahead of public demands, "if the war-laden people want light musical films, we'll give 'em light...

THE SCREEN (April 1944)

The Screen Not to Be Missed THERE are two new documentary films that you should break your neck to see. They seriously represent the art of the cinema. Note them well, plan to see them in your...

THE SCREEN (April 1944)

The Screen Weep for the French SINCE nobody seems to be certain about what happened in France, we can hardly be surprised that the movies have floundered about in their attempts to portray what...

THE SCREEN (March 1944)

THE SCREEN Trial at Scene of Crime ONCE in a while the movies tackle a problem that is too big for them, a problem that cannot stand the simplification necessitated by the requirements of plot,...

THE SCREEN (February 1944)

The Screen Boys Will Be Boys FROM the very beginning of "The Sullivans" one knows how the film will end; and this approaching sadness casts a misty tear over the whole movie. The newspapers and...

THE SCREEN (January 1944)

THE SCREEN Water Water Everywhere IT ISN'T that we haven't seen an Alfred Hitchcock picture before and didn't really know that he was a master director who can do practically anything with cinema....

THE SCREEN (December 1943)

THE SCREEN In Mud We Die SINCE wartimes seem to call for escapist pictures, a brittle adult comedy like "No Time for Love" might be just the answer. Its story is a variance on the...

THE SCREEN (October 1943)

October 15, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 633 The Not-So-Magic Carpet OUR MOVING PICTURE camera travels widely this week but returns us...

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612 THE COMMONWEAL October 8, 1943 All This and Heaven Too THE TROUBLE with these star-studded musical films is that you get a...

THE SCREEN (October 1943)

THE COMMONWEAL October I, I943 on the part of the public is really Mr. Rice's main idea as regisseur of the evening. If so, it does seem rather a commonplace to point out to him that no...

THE SCREEN (September 1943)

The Damned and the Saved "It reminded him of the Greek Drama, where the actors know so little and the spectators so much." The Longest Journey. By Cuthbert Wright EDWARD MORGAN FORSTER is,...

THE SCREEN (September 1943)

538 THE COMMONWEAL September 17, 1943 Hail! <fT>HERE are no words high enough to praise you," A. says one of the Army officers in...

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514 THE COMMONWEAL September 10, 1943 The Screen Any Similarity Etc. Is Coincidental ((THIRST COMES COURAGE" is a war picture ¦*...

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491 The Stage & Screen The Sun Burns THE MAKERS of "Hitler's Children," that sensational box-office success released earlier this year, now turn their probing cameras on Japan to learn how our...

THE SCREEN (August 1943)

August 27, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 465 Communications SICILIAN LAUDS Kent, Conn. TO the Editors: Mrs. Wyatt has written about Sicily's...

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442 THE COMMONWEAL August 20, 1943 The Stage & Screen Womance Continued THE amazing thing about Deanna Durbin is how she has...

The Screen (August 1943)

421 The Screen Satyrs and Nymphs <• «• TJEAFEN CAN WAIT" is the story of a man ii who thought he was quite a Casanova. That he was a success as a Great Lover only in his own eyes is revealed...

The Screen (August 1943)

Tkt COMMONWEAL volume xxxviii August 6, 1943 number 16 THE WEEK 383 SICILIAN LAUDS Euphemia Van Rensselaer...

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The Screen Rain! No Game! OF COURSE all the extraordinary Negro talent gathered for "Stormy Weather" cannot be blamed for the picture's being such a fizzle. Bill Robinson dances, Lena Home...

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322 The Stage & Screen The Vagabond King RUSSELL JANNEY'S revival of the "Vagabond King" following closely the reappearance of the "Student Prince" inevitably calls for comparative judgment....

THE SCREEN (July 1943)

301 The Screen Look Away Look Away THE WAR-TIME argument between those who say we should have more escapist films and those who insist that every picture should show at least an awareness of...

THE SCREEN (July 1943)

numbers beautifully. All this is very nice, but most of it is completely static. Kenny Baker, Gracie Fields, Ethel Merman, Lanny Ross, Ethel Waters sing in their best manner, but add no motion to...

THE SCREEN (June 1943)

252 The Stage & Screen Looking Before and After "S PITFIRE" is one of those carefully produced, efficient films that the English turn out, and which make English audiences flock to Hollywood...

THE SCREEN (June 1943)

225 Lighter Side SINCE "Cabin in the Sky" is a Negro fantasy, Hollywood might be excused for portraying Negroes as theatrical, crap-shootin', buck-and-wing darkies. But since this is a fantasy I...

THE SCREEN (June 1943)

The COMMONWEAL volume xxxviii June 11, 1943 number 8 THE WEEK 191 SERGEANTS' MESS Christopher Morley,...

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June 4, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 169 The Screen Native Land NOT since "Grapes of Wrath" has such a powerful social document come out of Hollywood as "The Ox-Bow Incident." There are cinema...

THE SCREEN (May 1943)

Hollywood's Mission THERE is no doubt that Warner Brothers knew what X it was doing in making "Mission to Moscow." That politically-minded company was first in the field several years ago with...

The Screen (May 1943)

The Stage & Screen IOO Two Wrapped in Technicolor i i /~1 RASH DIVE" represents one of those wonderful V_/ opportunities Hollywood has to make an unusual film; and then it throws originality...

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74 The Screen Hold Your Hat and Toupee AS HOLLYWOOD continues to use its best kwains and money to turn out expensive war-related films, reviewers frequently find themselves, on the spot ffi...

THE SCREEN (April 1943)

4o The Stage & Screen Tomorrow the World IN A plausible manner an American professor formerly taught by a German master (old style), whom the Master Race slaughtered, managed to get custody of...

THE SCREEN (April 1943)

The Stage & Screen La Belle France "THE HEART OF A NATION" is the much talked-of French film that was completed only a few days before the Germans marched into Paris. The invaders seized many...

THE SCREEN (August 1943)

April 16, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 643 ',4 Woman's Home Is in the...

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616 THE COMMONWEAL April 9, 1943 this season showed such masterful production. Barrymore loved Esther,...

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590 THE COMMONWEAL April 2,...

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b68 THE COMMONWEAL March 26, '943 The saboteur movement in France is the theme on...

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March 19, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b43 Effective defeats of her drive for power lead her...

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March 12, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL b1 a poet, but only a poet whose genius has been transfigured in Grace. But as...

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496 THE COMMONWEAL March 5, 1943 ...

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February 26, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 471 moves in. Guess the ultimate result. You are right the Deanna's...

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February 19, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 44 Mr. Young as I do, you are well advised to look him up...

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February 12, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 423 great thoughts and lofty aspirations is to make prose...

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398 THE COMMONWEAL February 5, 1943 by the PWA and the TVA; by the Holding...

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January 29, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 37 B. ALTMAN .t CO. ...

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350 THE COMMONWEAL January 22, 1943 tions of character is abysmal. It is perfectly illustrated Calling" and "Joan...

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January IS, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 327 Berlin you will not find it essential to make any material change in the lines. As a war...

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January 8, 1943 THE COMMONWEAL 301 me, are like the brilliant English poet I recently heard first see...

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28o THE COMMONWEAL January i, 1943 rate...

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256 THE COMMONWEAL December 25, 1942 They are gay; they...

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230 'I' H E COMMONWEAL December 18, 1942 Mr. Wilder's play is letting a lot of light into a lot of could not carry...

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December II, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 207 Orleans, Gussie and Paul, little boys of the comic-strip "I am Tondelayo,"...

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176 THE COMMONWEAL December 4, 1942 unending series of frightful catastrophes from...

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144 THE COMMONWEAL November 27, 1942 "Without Love" will be...

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November 20, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 121 by the nation of which California was so vitally a part. ...

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November 13, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 97 Papa Brown but...

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72 'I' H E COMMONWEAL November 6, 1942 too, is in many ways reminiscent of Jane Austen's: New John...

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October 30, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 4 Veteran Jack, Whiting plays the band leader; his de- livery of the more romantic...

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October 23, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL 17 in its own right. The plot-as though it matters-is this: Nutsy Davis, a burlesque comic...

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6x6 Babes in the Village "MY SISTER EILEEN" is one of those comedies A that rolls you in the aisles with glee. You can't believe that the two girls from Columbus, Ohio, could come to New York...

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our trees from the ravages of time and man in the Northwest. You will of course see some very beautiful tall trees and scenic spots, but you will also get large doses of Hollywoodian forest fires...

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gives one of the best performances of his career as the novelist who relates the absorbing tale. Some of the story is told to Marshall by Eric Blore, Albert Basserman and, with persuasion, by...

THE SCREEN (September 1942)

544 Shadows But No Substance SELDOM is a stage musical comedy made into a movie with results for the better—but such is the case with "Panama Hattie." Of course, there is only one Ethel Merman,...

THE SCREEN (September 1942)

Make-Believe THAT a million dollars' worth of stars and a million dollars' worth of script-writers don't necessarily make a million-dollar picture is well illustrated by "Tales of Manhattan."...

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destruction of Poland, Norway, Holland, Belgium. France crumbles. Nazis march down the Champs Elysees. Vichy is born in that sad Peace Car at Compiegne. Britain hangs on through bombardment after...

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473 Heroes rr\HE very fact that it is called "Wake Island" instead 1 of "Heroes Die With Their Boots On" or "So Sorry Please," is indicative of the kind of film it is. "Wake Island" comes as...

THE SCREEN (August 1942)

448 The Screen Some Very Tough Characters IF "This Gun for Hire" and "The Maltese Falcon" were your kind of movie, you'd better hurry over to John Huston's new film. Huston, who directed the...

THE SCREEN (August 1942)

Kane" will jump harder on his new film. But moviegoers who can take a film with a brain, who do not need to be soft-soaped with sentimental pap and who can enjoy a novel technique even though it is...

THE SCREEN (August 1942)

tello films bother to fuss around so much with plots. Usually the stories don't make much sense anyway, so why not just let the comedians, the singers and the chorus go about their business and do...

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374 The Screen Of Deer and Men A NEW feature-length film from the Disney Studios is a treat even when the film is not Disney at his best. And I'm sorry to report that for my money "Bambi" is...

THE SCREEN (July 1942)

"// Happened in Flatbush" is about baseball too. The picture is a minor B affair, and of course doesn't have the production or splash of Mr. Goldwyn's opus which was shown simultaneously in 41...

THE SCREEN (July 1942)

328 These Girls'll Be the Death of Me HOLLYWOOD is turning out another cycle of dilly females. At least so one might think from the heroines we have to contemplate this week. Irene Dunne is...

THE SCREEN (July 1942)

New York." Fitting broad-shouldered, swimming-muscled Tarzan into a suit is child's play compared with Jane's trying to explain why men live and work and crowd themselves into tiny New York. But...

THE SCREEN (July 1942)

256 Making Hey-Hey While the Sun Shines FARMERS never have got much of a break in the movies. Some of the documentary films have stated their problems effectively and a few of the features...

THE SCREEN (June 1942)

the sincerity of his portrayal is impressive even when the story gets choked with sentiment. Leslie Banks and John Clements lead the English cast in "Ships With Wings" but they are unable to keep...

THE SCREEN (June 1942)

The Screen Give My Regards to Broadway TO THE list of films that owe their success to the performance of a single star must now be added "Yankee Doodle Dandy." The star is James Cagney, whose...

THE SCREEN (June 1942)

(Harry Carey) and mean gamblers like the Bronco Kid (Richard Barthelmess). There is even a glimpse of a guy called Robert W. Service (played by himself) writing a poem about "The Shooting of Dan...

THE SCREEN (June 1942)

To Thine Own Self Be True IF YOU were one of the enthusiastic readers of "This Above All," you're not going to approve of the changes made in the film. But if you were only mild about Eric...

THE SCREEN (May 1942)

the present is untimely for its release, I do not agree. If we are fighting for the continuation of freedom, we should know now as well as any time that this liberty includes freedom of speech, the...

THE SCREEN (May 1942)

Although "The Mystery of Marie Roget" is based on Poe's story and the locale is still Paris, the time is now advanced to 1889. Perhaps the costumes of that period are a little more alluring...

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Breathes There a Hero WE ARE ALL quite used to Alfred Hitchcock's technique by now—violence, understatement, suspense, alternating with exciting chase and hairbreadth escape. Mr. Hitchcock...

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62 The Stage & Screen Sixteen Characters in Search of Action HOLLYWOOD has learned much from the French movie makers. But Hollywood has contributed a great deal to cinema art and it shouldn't...

THE SCREEN (April 1942)

April ~7, t942 THE COMMONWEAL 649 Tiger/ Tiger/ Burning Bright R UDYARD KIPLING has seen some strange things done to his stories in the films. Except for the animals and names, he wouldn't...

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April Io, I942 THE COMMONWEAL 62x that only tragedy can result from bucking the system. Galsworthy's "Loyalties" shows us the disastrous effects of inviting a Jew to be one's house guest....

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THE COMMONWEAL April 3, 1942 breaking were extended to every citizen; in airless cellar strongholds, bankers and dtbutantes rubbed shoulders with hijackers and assassins. "Johnny 2 x 4" is a...

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THE COMMONWEAL March :z 7, x942 Austrian-born London slavey who shelters refugee waifs in packing cases and dreams she is Cinderella. Prince Charming is the cockney policeman who suspects her of...

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$36 THE COMMONWEAL March 2o, I942 Aeschylus' "The Eumenides" will be presented in the original Greek at the Fordham University Theater on the evenings of March 26, 27, 28 and 29. The sponsors feel...

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March I3, i942 THE COMMONWEAL unimpeachable clarity; his delivery of the breath-devouring nightmare song is a triumph of comic virtuosity. I especially enjoyed, too, Helen Lanvin's rendition...

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THE COMMONWEAL March 6, I94Z A more valid criticism, it seems to me, might be its lack of pressing excitement. Voices bark constantly through a brace of annunciators, the teletype ticks fran-...

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February 27, 1942 THE COMMONWEAL beauty of Beverly Roberts. Lloyd Gough, the lyric-writer, has to compete with a badly written part ; the lines which are meant to demonstrate his superior...

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February zo, x942 THE COMMONWEAL On the same program, the Joos Ballet presented "The Big City" and "A Ball in Old Vienna." I preferred the latter: rather conventional material enhanced by humor...

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418 THE COM the subtleties ha the character. Lacking the psychological implications Ibsen intended, Hedda's behavior becomes mere caprice or pathology. The production follows in general Miss...

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February 6, I942 THE COMMONWEAL WSAL, which I read each week with interest, will not again stoop to such low besmirching of this great artist. As the author of another article you once published...

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January 3 ~ , 1942 THE COMMONWEAL The Rivals R ICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN'S "The Rivals" is generally catalogued in college drama textbooks as Comedy of Manners. But as Sheridan wrote it, it w~as...

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346 "The Front Page" and "Twentieth Century," upon which Mr. MacArthur collaborated with Ben Hecht, but the result was frantic confusion. Keenan Wynn and Edith Atwater were the chief athletes...

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32o THE COMMONWEAL January 16, 1942 a humanitarian intuition of the individual's private separa- tion, which is valid background for pathos but not for tragedy. Here is a triangle of the bored...

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296 THE COMMONWEAL January 9, I 9 4 a Lavender and New 8ongs I F YOU want a nostalgic romance with a sad, tender story that is beautifully directed and nicely acted without too much blubbering,...

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THE COMMONWEAL December 26, I94I My criticism of this book (and others similar to it) which I labeled an "English Legend Book" was that it presented a sentimentalized and romanticized version of...

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THE COMMONWEAL December I9, I941 reduces the entire audience to hysterical giggles. And when the gas lights dim, indicating that someone is prowl- ing about upstairs, you almost wish you hadn't...

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I98 THE COMMONWEAL December I% 1941 pulpits in which the bishops, according to the Associated Press despatch, "declared war on the drive toward a na- tional religion" in Germany. "We Germans have...

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xgo THE COMMONWEAL December 5, ~94x I I I I I I _ I I I I TRINITY COLLEGE WASHINGTON, D. C. dl~ A_____,-._, Cmkdde Io.~ba fer d~ ~ ~ot w~ l~mltdr ~ ia ~ Iml~Oa~ at ~ Catha~ U~ under...

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x44 THE COMMONWEAL November z8, t94I ill i i ! The Stage 8j' Screen i "11 '11 Macbeth NCE AGAIN we are in Maurice Evans's debt for o his presentation of a Shakespearean tragedy, and...

THE SCREEN (November 1941)

November 2I, I94Z THE COMMONWEAL 12 5 newest examples follow the pattern, but unfortunately sometimes forget to be entertaining while about it. In "'Appointment/or Lo~e" Margaret Sullavan is an...

THE SCREEN (November 1941)

94 THE COMMONWEAL November I4, x941 eration crude but vital, the second sophisticated but vulgar, the third beginning to attain to a sense of responsibility. The first two acts are the best. Here...

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THE COMMONWEAL November 7, I941 nothing for the basic idea. But taken all in all the play is by far the most interesting one performed so far this season. It tells a story which must echo in our...

THE SCREEN (October 1941)

October 3z, z94z THE COMMONWEAL 5z this stands them in good stead. They are unshackled by tradition, and most of them give the comedy a vitality which is as unusual as it is refreshing. First of...

THE SCREEN (October 1941)

16 THE COMMONWEAL October 24, 1941 rejoinder, of "the motives of the belligerent governments." This is inadequate as a test of the morality of the war. Whether or not the British government is...

THE SCREEN (October 1941)

THE SCREEN When the Boys Turn on the Glam " HOLD BACK THE DAWN" gains distinction through its unusual subject matter and background. It deals with Europeans who wait around in a Mexican borderline...

THE SCREEN (September 1941)

The Screen Go to the Movies and See the World WHEN cinema swings into swashbuckling adventure and romance, it should find itself right in its element and should hit the sky with resounding, robust...

THE SCREEN (August 1941)

The Screen Death Takes a Holiday on Borrowed Time WAR TIME seems to call for fantasy in entertainment because fantasy is the farthest escape from troublous reality. On its toes to sense audience...

THE SCREEN (August 1941)

The Screen Busman's Holiday PERHAPS I was slow at discovering it, but I found a new use for the movies during my vacation in Chicago. With the pavements steaming and the temperature sizzling up in...

THE SCREEN (August 1941)

The Screen "I Am Sick of Four Walls and a Ceiling" WHEN cinema moves out into the open spaces, it comes right into its own. It started with "The Great Train Robbery" and "The Eagle's Nest" and...

THE SCREEN (August 1941)

COMMONWEAL THE Communtcat ons St. Cloud, Minn. August x, z94t CATHOLIC ACTION Roosevelt's plea that America be made "the arsenal of for defense and its foreign policies than have the...

THE SCREEN (July 1941)

The Screen You Have Been Here Before OOMETIMES it is difficult to figure out the HollyS wood mind. Right in the midst of one of the worst slumps in years, when the box office is turning sour,...

THE SCREEN (July 1941)

The Screen American House of York IT IS with a film like "Sergeant York" tfiat Hollywood again reassures its picture-hungry audiences that it is capable of producing cinematic art. Through the...

THE SCREEN (July 1941)

The Screen "Heaven lies about us in our infancy" FOR WOMEN who want a complete escape from today's woes I recommend cinema's latest loving peek into the past; "Blossoms in the Dust" is designed...

THE SCREEN (July 1941)

The Screen Revolt of the Little People ADMIRERS of Damon Runyon's stories about guys and dolls will find "Tight Shoes" much to their liking. It is a faithful transcription full of Runyonesque that...

THE SCREEN (June 1941)

THE SCREEN More War-Different Angle HOLLYWOOD continues to turn out movies with war backgrounds, but every now and then comes one that stands out from all the rest. Such a film is "Man Hunt" And...

THE SCREEN (June 1941)

THE SCREEN Of Mars and the Film DURING THE past year we have seen several cinematic reactions to the present wars and the state of the world. During the next year we are likely to see many more....

THE SCREEN (June 1941)

The Screen Whooo Stole My Heart Away MUSICAL COMEDIES have never been famous for their intelligent or absorbing plots, but the vacuum of their stories becomes doubly vacuous (if that's possible)...

THE SCREEN (June 1941)

THE COMMONWEAL GRENVILLE VERNON. I6O that for a vital drama there must be generally accepted standards of conduct and belief. The dramatist may either defend or attack these standards or...

THE STAGE & SCREEN (April 1941)

The Stage & Screen Watch on the Rhine I WENT to "Watch on the Rhine" with high hopes, as I had read the reviews of several of my fellow critics, and with one exception they declared Miss...

THE SCREEN (April 1941)

622, THE COMMONWEAL April II, 1940 Fly Away Jack; Come Back Topper r WANTED WINGS" continues Hollywood's present cycle designed to entertain with airplane and defense pictures. Dedicated to the...

THE SCREEN (April 1941)

602 THE COMMONWEAL April 4, 1941 The Stage El Screen They Walk Alone THE LONDON THEATRE seems to have a predilection for psychological horror dramas, and has given us some excellent...

THE SCREEN (March 1941)

Capra and Doe's Little Punks FOR YEARS Frank Capra has been making pictures about little guys, unimportant nobodies who go through a series of humorous and sentimental incidents, and just when...

THE STAGE (March 1941)

542 THE COMMONWEAL March 21, 1941 The Stage El Screen Speech in the Theatre THOSE who have to attend the theatre night after night have become aware of a rather peculiar thing—the contrast in...

THE SCREEN (March 1941)

520 THE COMMONWEAL March 14, 1941 Jest and Youthful Jollity THERE'S something appealing about a nice, pleasant chap like Henry Fonda, even when as Charles Pike, the ophiologist who has been up the...

THE SCREEN (March 1941)

March 7, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 497 average George Abbott production. A line used in it in criticism of the play the young people perform might well be applied to the whole proceedings: "There is...

THE SCREEN (February 1941)

47 6 THE COMMONWEAL February z8, 1941 Belasco lead. John Williams as the "British Englishman" gives another of his polished and whimsical performances, Olga Baclanova is amusing as the opera...

THE SCREEN (February 1941)

448 THE COMMONWEAL February 21, 1941 Liberty by Smith and Brown from the clutches of the Three Shirts. It is patriotic and well meaning and rather foolish. There is incidental music and there...

THE SCREEN (February 1941)

RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL Showplace a the Notion Rockefeller Center An exciting new drama . . . vividly bringing to the screen the adventure, glory and romance of a young America. "AR I ZO N...

THE SCREEN (February 1941)

They Say That Mrs. Whosis CINEMA wiseacres predicted that Director Alfred Hitchcock's coming to Hollywood would mean his finish as a director of importance. They had to eat their words when his...

THE SCREEN (January 1941)

Various Violences W HEN rough, fast-moving, hard, gun-man pictures are to be made, Warners is the company to turn 'em out. Warners has been specializing in gangsters ever since "Little Caesar."...

THE SCREEN (February 1941)

Men Must Work, and Women Must Weep— and Work W RILE cinema's "Kitty Foyle" isn't exactly Chris- topher Morley's "Kitty Foyle," it is an interesting picture in its own right. The story and...

THE SCREEN (January 1941)

Ten—and One to Carry W HILE the bell is still tolling for 1940, it might be well to give a hasty look back—principally because you know where you stand with your reviewer when you know what he...

THE SCREEN (January 1941)

304 THE COMMONWEAL January to, 1941 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL subleties of Joseph Conrad's novels seem too difficult an assignment for cinema. However, the new film version of "Victory" is a definite...

THE SCREEN (January 1941)

January 3, 1941 THE COMMONWEAL 283 a romantic poet, a hard-working realist, and a bitter radical. She has been the mistress of the radical, she learns to love the realist, the man of the soil, but...

THE SCREEN (December 1940)

256 THE COMMONWEAL December 27, 194o with the playwright against some of my fellow members of the Critics' Circle. Many of them, perhaps a majority of them, just won't have a romantic book at all,...

THE SCREEN (December 1940)

232 THE COMMONWEAL December 20, 1940 The Stage & Screen Trivia LAST WEEK the theatrical season returned to its state of somnolence. There were three offerings—that is, two plays and a...

THE SCREEN (December 1940)

December 13, x94o THE COMMONWEAL 209 itself if it sends its readers to the most important of all such books, Don Luigi Sturzo's monumental and inspiring "Church and State" (Longmans, $5.00). But...

THE SCREEN (December 1940)

18o THE COMMONWEAL December 6, 194o to alleviate the sufferings of these most unfortunate members of Christ's fold. Today they stretch out begging hands to you, their friends, asking the aid of...

THE SCREEN (November 1940)

15 2 THE COMMONWEAL November 29, 1940 .‘"Once in a Lifetime" ‘FANTASIA" is a rare treat. If you live in one of the twelve lucky cities in which it is playing and if you want a new esthetic...

THE SCREEN (November 1940)

128 THE COMMONWEAL November 22, 1940 Getting Their Men-4nd Women WITH A GORGEOUS splash of color, Cecil B. DeMille brings us his "Northwest Mounted Police," a pageant in which the Mounties' vivid...

THE SCREEN (November 1940)

That Funny Little Man Again W HEN the great Chariot is funny in his new picture, he's at his very funny best; but when the world's most famous comedian takes himself and the world's woes too...

THE SCREEN (November 1940)

November I, 194o THE COMMONWEAL 57 No Time for Politics WHEN MRS. ROOSEVELT made the prologue for James Roosevelt's picture "Pastor Hall," some of the trade papers screamed "Politics!" But this...

THE SCREEN (October 1940)

24 THE COMMONWEAL October 25, 1940 The Stage & Screen Gilbert and Sullivan THE LYRIC OPERA COMPANY certainly de- serves encouragement; it has the best chorus I have ever heard in a Gilbert and...

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530 THE COMMONWEAL October 18,...

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512 THE COMMONWEAL October i I, 1940 not a subtle one, but he knows how to put over a song son, all decked out in...

THE SCREEN (October 1940)

October 4, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 491 to Ralph Cullinan for his amusing portrait...

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September 27, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 469 'The NLRB Is Right' (August I6)." Concerning the ...

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September 20, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 449 cause great...

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September 13, I940 THE COMMONWEAL 429 social American eccentric, his work during the last seven will fall for...

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410 THE COMMONWEAL September 6, 1940 shadowing my artist friend and to ease America's anxiety over her want of trained...

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390 THE COMMONWEAL August 30, 1940 have had so...

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292 THE COMMONWEAL July 26, 1940 scrupulous and ruthless. He may take all our land and Stone), who...

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July 19, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 271 Hope, who knows...

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July 5, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 23 Denham. It was another proof that English playwrights know how...

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June 28, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 213 All...

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192 THE COMMONWEAL June 21, 1940 funny, but he is far more than that, for he is one of the Jannings...

THE SCREEN (June 1940)

170 THE COMMONWEAL June 14, 1940 and wars are merely the horrible signs and omens; but we Lamb should have...

THE SCREEN (May 1940)

130 THE COMMONWEAL May 31, 1940 the other end of the amusement section at the...

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May 24, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 103 physical vigor would...

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May 17, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 83 in the words of Kipling, "There is too much ego in his cosmos."...

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May 10, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 63 At times it picks up the static play and by sheer galvanic power...

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MaY 3, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 43 amiable and...

THE SCREEN (April 1940)

Horses, Dogs and Men (( rpLORIAN" could have been a good movie if •* Director Edwin L, Marin and the brace of scriptwriters involved had stuck closer to Felix Salten's book and the hero-horse....

THE SCREEN (April 1940)

Jane Eyre Again IT IS MY GOOD FORTUNE to have seen David O. Selznick's excellent production of "Rebecca^' before I read Daphne du Maurier's novel. Not being forewarned, I sat spellbound from the...

THE SCREEN (April 1940)

Of Dalliance Treads SINCE Producer-Director Gregory LaCava thought enough of "Primrose Path" to make a movie from it, I wish he had tried a little harder to make a good picture. "Primrose Path"...

THE SCREEN (March 1940)

Port Huron, Alcatraz and Points East HOLLYWOOD now combines its yen for serials with its yen for film biographies and gives us "Young Tom Edison" (Part Two, with Spencer Tracy, follows soon)....

THE SCREEN (March 1940)

Full Week STRANGE CARGO" is a strange film, dominated O by a "Third-Floor-Back" figure vs^ho strives to prove to six hardened criminals w^ho escape from a Guiana Penal Colony that they are not...

THE SCREEN (March 1940)

Men and Women against Death I t T T I G I L IN THE NIGHT," based on A. J. CroV nin's novel, is at disadvantage by being released at the same time as Pare Lorentz's documentary film, "The Fight...

THE STAGE AND SCREEN (March 1940)

Night Musk THIS IS open season for boy-meets-girl-in-New-York plays, and now Clifford Odets has written his version. Unlike Elmer Rice's "Two on an Island," which the Odets play resembles and...

THE STAGE AND SCREEN (March 1940)

The Unconquered AYN RAND wrote this play about 1924 Soviet Russians as if she couldn't quite make up her mind whether she was writing a melodrama about a woman engineer, with ambitions to build...

THE SCREEN (February 1940)

"Got No Strings" itT}INOCCHIO" may not have exactly the story XT or characters that Collodi had in mind in his famous tale, but it is Walt Disney at his best. Perfect for the Disney medium are...

THE SCREEN (February 1940)

"Faith That Ri^ht Makes Might" IT IS PARADOXICAL that the most exciting scene in a first rate picture should show njerely a debate. The scene in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois' is the LincolnDouglas...

THE SCREEN (February 1940)

Trampling Out the Vintage " l \ / f ^ DIRT, it ain't no good, but it's mine," says I T A Grampa in the Dust Bowl as the Joads start out on their pitiful journey on Highway 66. With high hopes,...

THE SCREEN (February 1940)

Back in Your Own Backyard SENTIMENTALISTS should get their fill this week; and they can start out with a colorful though unimaginative production of "The Bluebird." Although Ernest Pascal had...

THE SCREEN (January 1940)

Oyez! Oyez! OyezI ROBERT MONTGOMERY proves in "The Earl of Chicago" that his brilliant performance in "Night Must Fall" was not just an accident. No Hollywood playboy romps through this unusual...

THE SCREEN (January 1940)

"Tell Me About de Rabbits, George" C t T j E S T " lists are popping all over the place. Here JLJ are the pictures, from the hundreds I saw last year, that stand out for me as the best of the...

THE SCREEN (January 1940)

From Library to Hollywood for a Second Time VICTOR HUGO probably meant no good by the Church when he wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." However this second filming of the book gives the Church...

THE SCREEN (January 1940)

1939—A^l Gone, Gone With the Wind WE HAVE.waited a long time and finally it is here. Even with its faults, which it is by no means without, "Gone With the Wind" is worth waiting for and a great...

THE SCREEN (December 1939)

Lilliputians, Russians and Lemps t t / - G U L L I V E R ' S TRAVELS," the new feature V J length. Technicolor cartoon from Max Fleischer's studios, goes into none of the seamy details of the...

THE SCREEN (December 1939)

Jll of the People All of the Time t c ' - p H E LION HAS W I N G S " is a frank, undisguised A propaganda film distinguished by beautiful photography and excellent cutting and editing. Its...

THE SCREEN (December 1939)

"Ah! Stveet Myster-ry of Life" 4 t ' T ^ H E GREAT VICTOR HERBERT" is a sentiA mental feast for those w^ho want to revel in Herbert melodies. They'll get their money's worth in...

THE SCREEN (December 1939)

"Winter of Our Discontent" IF THE goriest passages in English history are your favorites, j'ou'll be sold on Universal's new film, "Tower of London," which is really an illustrated outline of...

THE SCREEN (December 1939)

"Proper Study of Mankind Is Man" YOU WONDER when you see "We Are Not Alone" that such a lovable, kindly, thoughtful doctor as is portrayed by Paul Muni ever happened to marry that severe,...

THE SCREEN (November 1939)

Ships, Murders and Kisses t t O ULERS OF T H E SEA" refers not to Sabatini l \ . pirates or British warships but to those pioneer vessels that first crossed the Atlantic by steam power alone and...

THE SCREEN (November 1939)

A Man Must Stand Up "THE PRIVATE LIVES O F ELIZABETH AND ESSEX" becomes the public quarrels of two prides as Bess and Robert love and spit at each other in classical language. Deviations from...

THE SCREEN (November 1939)

Crime Does Not Pay t t ^ H E ROARING TWENTIES" turns out to be A a snappy lecture on the evils of prohibition. Even a commentator, "March of Time" style, keeps you posted on the moral of the...

THE SCREEN (November 1939)

Garbo Laughs! AT LONG LAST, Greta Garbo brings her beauty, individuality and deep voice back to the screen. And as a comedienne she sparkles—with the help of Director Ernst Lubitsch who knows...

THE SCREEN (October 1939)

Mr. Capra Goes to Town FRANK CAPRA has done it again! In "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Director Capra gives us a surefire hit steeped in patriotism, satire, warm humanity and high comedy. When...

THE SCREEN (October 1939)

October 2o, I939 THE II COMMONWEAL ]leSIa e .CScreen 11 They Knew IFhat They Wanted T HE WHIRLIOIG of time brings many changes. 'They Knew What They Wanted," a Pulitzer prize-winning play...

THE SCREEN (October 1939)

564 THE COMMONWEAL October 13 , 1939 first act is the best thing of its kind I've seen in years. (.,It the Ambassador Theatre.) GRENVILLE VERNON. No Discharge in the War N OT TO BE CAUGHT...

THE SCREEN (October 1939)

October 6, ~939 THE C O M M O N W E A L 539 congressional farm bloc had become obsessed with the belief that low-cost imports of Philippine sugar and cocoanut products were having a depressive...

THE SCREEN (September 1939)

September 29 , 1939 THE COMMONWEAL 519 Journcy's End I DID NOT SEE "Journey's End" when it was given fourteen years ago, and therefore I have no comparisons to make. Some of the daily critics...

THE SCREEN (September 1939)

500 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, I93 9 The Screen Books of the Week Clouds Over ~Koman L OUIS BROMFIELD'S novel is a natural for the movies and Clarence Brown has directed it into an absorbing...

THE SCREEN (September 1939)

September I5, I939 T H E C O M M O N W E A L 48I The Screen Books of the Week All Passion Spent J ULIEN DUVIVIER, who left Hollywood in a huff last year, sends us "The End of a Day." This...

THE SCREEN (September 1939)

September 8, I939 THE COMMONWEAL 459 The Screen Golden Lads and Lassies T HOSE who saw Clifford Odets's stage hit will find the movie made from "Golden Boy" somewhat pale by comparison....

THE SCREEN (August 1939)

400 T H E C O M M O N W E A L August i8, 1939 The Screen Books of the Week Fuss and Feathers-I F MOVIE-GOERS must assist in the building of the British Empire, let them have films like...

THE SCREEN (August 1939)

380 THE COMMONWEAL August I I , 1939 The Screen Some Very Stout Fellas p ARAMOUNT could afford to be brave about running off for the critics the old silent "Beau Geste" a few days before...

THE SCREEN (August 1939)

August 4, I 9 3 9 THE COMMONWEAL 359 said of "Wuthering Heights": . . . This film is a masterly re-creation, retaining the sensational plot, the Gothic characters and the essential naivet~ of...

THE SCREEN (July 1939)

340 THE COMMONWEAL J u l y 28, I 9 3 9 Pope Plus is planning a new peace move, Vatican circles reported today. This would indicate that previous suggestions, made through diplomatic channels,...

THE SCREEN (July 1939)

300 THE COMMONWEAL July I4, I939 . . . . . "' S t a g T i l e e Screen I I [ the communist was too much, and the inclusion in its direction of such able men as Emmet Lavery, while...

THE SCREEN (July 1939)

z78 THE COMMONWEAL July 7, I939 I The Stage !! #..r Screen The Streets of Paris 66TH, E STREETS OF PARIS" is of the breed of -i- 'Hellzapoppin," and the association of Olsen and Johnson with...

THE SCREEN (June 1939)

240 THE COMMONWEAL June 23 , 1939 I! The Stage Screen The Season's Plays I T WOU, LD BE IDLE to assert that the season just ending has touched any high-water mark in America-'s theatrical...

THE SCREEN (June 1939)

218 THE COMMONWEAL June I6, 1939 sta .i rl Tile e Screen i i i The Ballet Caravan T HIS new organization of dancers under the direction of Lincoln Kirstein, with Fritz Kitzinger as...

THE SCREEN (May 1939)

Io6 THE COMMONWEAL May 19, 1939 Vernon has chosen seven titles for his lecture subjects: "Religion Returns to the Theatre"; "The Leading American Playwrights from Clyde Fitch to Philip Barry";...

THE SCREEN (May 1939)

48 THE COMMONWEAL May 5, t939 II The Stage Screen No Time For Comedy I ; 6 " ~ 1 0 TIME FOR COMEDY" is not perhaps one l "~1 of Mr. Behrman's most successful comedies, but that doesn't mean that...

THE STAGE (April 1939)

A p r i l 28, r 9 3 9 THE COMMONWEAL 2 t 2. Afford an opening wedge through which enemies of the U.M.W.A. might try to break the union by means of "open shop" tactics. 3. "Provoke strikes and...

THE SCREEN (April 1939)

The Stage & Screen Passion in Yorkshire; War in Texas WUTHERING HEIGHTS" is the kind of picture that revives your faith in the art of the cinema. There have been so many expensive movies...

THE SCREEN (April 1939)

A la recherche du temps perdu "THESTORY OF VERNON AND IRENE CASTLE" may spell romance for those who remember this famous dancing couple in their heyday but as material for Fred Astaire and...

THE SCREEN (April 1939)

665 Dear Watson and Some Irish Heroes DARRYL F. ZANUCK has done such an excellent production job with "The Hound of the Basker-villes" that one enjoys Ernest Pascal's adaptation of Conan Doyle's...

THE SCREEN (March 1939)

640 "What are heroes, prophets, men—" TWO NEW documentary films merit your attention. Both are vitally alive, timely, biased, anti-fascist; and both get under your skin. Herbert Kline's...

THE SCREEN (March 1939)

609 Stone Walls Do Not IT IS amazing how much of repetition, sameness and warmed-over cliches appear in recent films. Except for Adolphe Menjou's good acting, "King of the Turf" is like all...

THE SCREEN (March 1939)

Cagney, Temple and Fonda HOLLYWOOD'S "western" cycle is in full swing and we might as well sit up and take it. The pictures, all pretty much of a pattern, seem to be quite aware of the Jesse...

THE SCREEN (March 1939)

552 "It's a man's world" STEP right up, folks, and let "Stagecoach" show you what John Ford and Walter Wanger can do when they make a "Western" for grown-ups. This "Grand Hotel" on wheels...

THE SCREEN (March 1939)

No Water; Lucius Beebe; Murder; Opera A LOT of good acting talent is wasted in "Yes, My Darling Daughter," the new Warner Brothers' picture that the New York State Board of Censors has banned....

THE SCREEN (February 1939)

497 Cinders, Sarongs and Cold Cream THE CINDER in Jane's eye, which led to his meeting A and marrying Jane, is what Johnny falteringly talks about to his boss and later to his mother. Then there...

THE SCREEN (February 1939)

Hollywood's Delight IT IS seldom that a play makes such an intelligent movie as does "Idiot's Delight." Of course, there were changes such as slurring the locale of the European hotel in which...

THE SCREEN (February 1939)

441 "You're a better man than . . ." SAM JAFFE is almost the forgotten man in the titlerole of "Gunga Din," as Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, jr., and Victor McLaglen fight their way...

THE SCREEN (February 1939)

Sociology Four CRIMINALS and criminology dominate the screen offerings this week, and interestingly enough, Hollywood has made a definite effort in the handling of the themes to understand...

THE SCREEN (January 1939)

386 Freshman Civics and History "THE GREAT MAN VOTES," only mildly the A lesson in citizenship that its title implies, is really a very funny comedy that might have been an exceptional picture if...

THE SCREEN (January 1939)

"Ring in the new . . ." BECAUSE this is the time of the year for inventories and because readers of a motion picture column have a right to know where their reviewer stands, I submit my choice...

THE SCREEN (January 1939)

330 "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" MOVIES have a way of repeating themselves; and "Kentucky" is a repeat of all films that use for locale that state famous for its blue grass, feuds,...

THE SCREEN (January 1939)

"Rain" and Wind and Slush UNLIKE BEACHCOMBER" is sort of an inverted JL "Rain" with Charles Laughton as a drunken reprobate, an immoral, lying wastrel, a male Sadie Thompson to Elsa...

THE SCREEN (December 1938)

"God Bless Us, Every One!" Say Tiny Tim and Errol Flynn LIBERTIES were taken in the filming of "A Christmas Carol," but not too many to spoil the cheery spirit of Dickens's lovable book. The...

THE SCREEN (December 1938)

The Busy Bee and Some Comedies "The Shining Hour" rates as interesting, adult fare. Its theme, of love and bitterness and hatred among five people who never should have been collected under...

THE SCREEN (December 1938)

Shaw's First Film and a Catholic Picture GEORGE BERNARD SHAW has finally conVj descended to the filming of one of his plays. In fact, Mr. Shaw supervised the filming "to show Hollywood how a...

THE SCREEN (December 1938)

A Ballerina, a Queen and a Cowboy THE FRENCH have sent over another of their superlative films. Directed by Jean Benoit-Levy, based on Paul Morand's "La Mort du Cygne," flawlessly acted by...

THE SCREEN (November 1938)

Return of the Waltz, Gangster and Submarine M-G-M wisely announce right in the beginning that "The Great Waltz" is meant to portray the spirit and music of Johann Strauss rather than the facts of...

THE SCREEN (November 1938)

104 The Stage & Screen Of Men and Mice WILL ROGERS was not one of my favorites. And I did not believe "They threw away the mold after he was born." Anyway, in "The Arkansas Traveler," Bob...

THE SCREEN (November 1938)

76 The Stage & Screen 77 Oath of Hippocrates THE SUDDEN influx of pictures concerning doctors is noteworthy, not so much for producers' newinterest in socialized medicine as their...

THE SCREEN (November 1938)

48 The Stage & Screen Vanishing Ladies and Corpses ENGLISH Alfred Hitchcock has sent over another of those little gems, "The Lady Vanishes." Winning no prize for originality of plot, this spy...

THE SCREEN (October 1938)

20 THE COMMONWEAL October 28, 1938 The Stage & Screen October 28, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 21 Ah, Youth! Youth! Eternal Youth! SOMEHOW in spite of its spectacular big...

The Screen (October 1938)

October 21, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 677 The Stage & Screen The Fabulous Invalid «~+HE FABULOUS INVALID" is the saga of a 11 New York theatre. It takes it from the time "The Alexandria" sprung fall...

THE SCREEN (October 1938)

October 14, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 645 ing when a rock is lifted. Besides Miss Claire's, admirable performances are given by Edwin Nicander, Frank Wilson, 011ie Burgoyne, Philip Ober, Millard Mitchell...

The Screen (October 1938)

616 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1938 Webb, and for their dancing to the Hartmans and June Preisser. So taken all in all, the show furnishes as much entertainment as the tired business man can desire....

The Screen (September 1938)

590 THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1938 Trenholm as the nurse. "Come Across" is distinctly better than the average play which opens the New York season and will please those who like crook plays of...

The Screen (September 1938)

September 23, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 561 actors and actresses out of work who are able to play these parts. At all events let us hope that the Federal Theatre will in the future broaden its political...

The Screen (September 1938)

534 THE COMMONWEAL September 16, 1938 speare cycle, not tabloid Shakespeare. These are things for Mr. Krimsky to consider and to consider carefully. If the 'World's Fair is to give plays at all, it...

The Screen (August 1938)

390 THE COMMONWEAL August 5, 1938 objectives to obtain; but there seems to be no evidence that Toledano himself is a communist. Having shown Mr. Sylvester way off the track on one point concerning...

THE SCREEN (July 1938)

370 THE COMMONWEAL July 29, 1938 The Screen Comedy and Melodrama T HE APPEARANCE of a new Harold Lloyd picture should be an occasion for rejoicing among ardent film-goers. From the days of the...

THE SCREEN (July 1938)

July 15, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 329 The Stage and Screen The 1cting of the Year T HOUGH the theatrical season of 1937-1938 has not been remarkable for its plays, its acting has been of an unusually...

THE SCREEN (July 1938)

July 8, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 301 mittently good, and Rachel Crothers's "Susan and God," while starting out effectively, went to pieces in the last act. There were, however, two interesting...

THE SCREEN (July 1938)

July I, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 273 The Stage and Screen On the Rocks T HE FEDERAL THEATRE has put its best foot forward in its presentation of George Bernard Shaw's "On the Rocks." It has done...

THE SCREEN (June 1938)

1SS THE COMMONWEAL June 1o, 1938 The Stage and Screen The Case of Clifford Odets TO THE average left-wing writer modesty is a virtue long since dumped overboard with the rest of the bourgeois...

The Screen (June 1938)

June 3, 1938 T H E COMMONWEAL 161 The Stage and Screen The Prize Plays THE TWO prize plays for the season of 1937-1938 have now been announced, the award of the Pulitzer Committee going to...

The Screen (May 1938)

May 27, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 133 The Stage and Screen I Married an 1 ngel I N A DAY when musical comedies are few and far between it is not well to be too critical, and when Rodgers and Hart...

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