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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Clair. now 59, does not everywhere rise to his subject (taken from a novel by René Pallet), and at no point does he approach the artistic altitudes he reached in the '20s. But he works with a degree of taste that few moviemakers can rival, and perhaps as well as any humorist alive he achieves an exquisite thing: he laughs at life but not at people...
...others: Constance, Natalie); of pneumonia; in Las Vegas. A two-reeler actress at 14, Siren Talmadge vamped her way to high-salaried high living (up to $7,500 a week) in a low-tax era, became one of Hollywood's top-rated movie queens in the '20s under the shrewd guidance of first husband Joseph M. Schenk (through such films as Smilin' Through, Camille), retired in 1930 with wealth intact after an unsuccessful try at the talkies (and a Mexican divorce from Schenk), stormily wed (in 1934) and divorced Comic George Jessel, later, a victim of arthritis...
Died. Admiral (ret.) John Dale Price, 65, rawboned, good-natured naval aviator, Truman-era Vice Chief of Naval Operations, credited with making the first night landing on an aircraft carrier (in the mid-'20s); after long illness; in San Diego Naval Hospital...
Died. Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, 86, lawyer, longtime (1911-13, 1915-33) Republican Congressman from Missouri; in St. Louis. An ardent fighter against Prohibition during the '20s, "Lee" Dyer authored (in 1919) the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act which made interstate traffic in stolen autos a federal offense...
...Makropoulos Secret (by Karel Capek) is a kind of philosophic mystery story-by the author of R.U.R.-first produced in the '20s. It is the kind of phililosophic mystery story that Director Tyrone Guthrie, with his instinct for theater and his itch for new slants, would clearly have enjoyed remodeling. The Guthrie treatment did not mean giving the play a more modern look or a different philosophic spin. It meant reverting to a 19th century mode of acting and a Continental air of high twaddle-one moment for their value as drama, another for what is the outlines...