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She plays Miss Marple, a sort of dowager-detective who takes the 4:50 train from Paddington Station one afternoon and, happening to glance up from the whodunit she is wolfing, sees a woman being strangled in a passing train. Murder, she says to the police, but they only smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Potty Old Party | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

"Comrade Bill." He joined a small class run by Robert Henri and George Bellows, both of whom rambled on about love, life and art and seemed to make it a point to disagree about everything. Then one day at the clothing store, young Gropper did a series of political caricatures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Durable Rebel | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Lay Off the Muses | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

The Moanin', Groanin' Blues: Ida Cox (Riverside). One of the classic blues singers displays the supple style, the subtle sense of inflection and phrase, with which she compensated for her lack of the bellows strength of, say, Ma Rainey. Her quarrel with men in these 1920s recordings is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jazz Records | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

The film smells of the theater, though less than most photographed plays. Most of the action takes place in one small room, but that pent-up, gotta-get-outa-here feeling is essential to the story. Regrettably, the actors-all the principals have been held over from the Broadway production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acute Ghettoitis | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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