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The story scarcely matters except as an excuse for some scare scenes, which are pretty well filmed, and some scare characters, who are amusingly played. George Coulouris uses his trapezoidal shoulders effectively. Hazel Brooks, as a prettied-up version of the Dark Lady of Cartoonist Chas. Addams' horror house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Arline, 35, has been married five times, including one three-year stretch with Bob Topping's older brother Dan (who has been married four times). Arline's other husbands: Cinema Director Wesley Ruggles, R.A.F. Captain James R. Addams* and Huckster Vincent Morgan Ryan, to whom she was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Musical Chairs | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Nobel and Nine Secretaries. He kept nine secretaries busy, dictating his 3,500 articles, speeches and books, campaigning for repeal of prohibition, against the child-labor amendment, for the League of Nations and the Republican Party. For his plodding conservatism, leftists were apt to regard him as a kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Nicholas Miraculous | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Furthermore, do not open it intending only a quick glance and a passing smile, because you will find yourself reading the entire magazine, except possibly for some rhymed, five-line fillers masquerading as limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On The Shelf | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

The test would be truer, of course, if the veterans had chosen "Pygmalion' or some other Shavian comedy. But the only available local theater is Sanders, which once frightened Charles Addams, and no comedy could hope to overcome its intense and ancient gloom. Its other limitations, such as the absence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/19/1947 | See Source »

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