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...Name Is Julia Ross (Columbia) sets out to frighten its customers - and does a pretty expert job. A young girl (Nina Foch), looking for employment in London, finds herself eagerly - ah, too eagerly - employed as secretary to a re spectable-looking old lady (Dame May Whitty). It soon appears that she has been hired as a full-time victim in a family of determined killers. Kept on a diet of Mickey Finns in the locked room of a lonely, cliffbound house with a dizzying view of the sea, she has every reason to feel insecure...
Kurusu: No, nothing of particular interest except that it is quite clear now that that southward-ah-the south, the south matter is having considerable effect. [This was a reference to Jap troops in French Indo-China...
...reminiscent old story it is. A musical comedy star (Merle Oberon) sprains her ankle and is treated in her dressing room by a handsome French interne (Charles Korvin). Ah, Paris-with the horse chestnuts in bloom! Miss Oberon's touring troupe moves on, but she has decided to be a poor Parisian housewife. The years slip by and Dr. Korvin obviously isn't getting rich at his research; but Merle seems happy with her wifely chores and her roly-poly daughter. Very suddenly, one day, Dr. Korvin suspects his wife of infidelity, and without asking for explanations...
...Cissie's scurrilities go, these were mere warmups. The worst she saved for her ex-son-in-law Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, whom she mortally hates. Wrote Cissie: "Ah, Drew, rose-sniffing, child-loving, child-cheater, sentimental Drew. . . . Vicious and. . . ." (Eleven more lines, reflecting on Mr. Pearson's personal habits, have been deleted by TIME. To publish them might put TIME into court for disseminating a libel...
...Ah! Wilderness. But while it lasted and whil the Age of Opulence covered the land with its fertilizing flood, Americans floated and liked it. The Booster and the Hustler appeared, to do battle with the Knocker. For there were knockers. Many of the long-haired critics had fled prosperity in favor of poverty in Paris. In London, the most important of them, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, found a name for the period's typical man: "Apeneck Sweeney." He called the age's greatest poem simply: The Waste Land...