Word: angeles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst seasons in a generation. Such big names as Maxwell Anderson, Somerset Maugham, Kaufman & Ferber were rubbed out weeks ago. In over five months, not a single original play by a U.S. playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...
Adapted by Rodney Ackland from a Hugh Walpole novel, this is one of those thrillers of the dirty-work-among-the-tea-cosies school -- "Angel Street" and "Ladies in Retirement" are others. Like them, it is concerned with the psychological fascinations of foul play in a secluded house in Victorian England. The old ladies, three of 'em, are boarders in a rooming house, each passing away her last few years alone. A conflict of personalities between the sadistic, half-crazed Agatha Payne and her high-strung, fragile neighbor, May Beringer, provides the substance of the drama. Starting slowly, the play...
This crusade business is slowly geting under my skin. Every time we Americans do anything, we feel that we must pose as knights in white armor bringing light to the darkness of the rest of the world. In the last war Wilson was the guardian angel of the great myth. In this war Henry Luce has cast Roosevelt as the champion of the liberal democratic ideal leading the world into an American Century. The strange thing about this simon pure attitude towards America, is that it is embraced by isolationists as freely as interventionists. Ever since Henry James we have...
...months later, like a falling angel, he suddenly appeared before the Dies Committee. Loud were Mr. Pelley's praises of its good work. Embarrassed, bewildered, the Committee shushed and shooed Mr. Pelley away. Outside the committee-room door, police arrested him on a warrant from North Carolina...
Shanghai Gesture is notable for its inexcusably bad acting and directing. Magniloquent Director Josef von Sternberg (once plain Joe Stern of Queens) apparently spent a million or so dollars trying to repeat his former success in turning Marlene Dietrich into the screen's No. 1 siren (Blue Angel, Morocco, etc.). He succeeds merely in making Gesture an unexciting series of close-ups of Miss Tierney, a nice, pretty, corn-fed American girl of 21, who is too young and inexperienced for her part...