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...witnesses against the Communists have included such young patriots as Herbert Philbrick. persuaded by the FBI to infiltrate the Communist Party at great personal sacrifice, and such tortured souls as Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley. Inevitably, the witnesses have also included a few prize phonies, interested only in the fast dollar and the big headline. Last week the biggest phony of them all, Harvey Marshall Matusow, a Communist who turned professional antiCommunist, and is now headed full circle, faced the press in room 108 of Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel...
Born 37 years ago, William Remington was well on the way to a distinguished career in Government in 1948 when Elizabeth Bentley named him as one of her sources of secret defense information at the time that she was a Communist spy. He had worked for the National Resources Planning Board, the Office of Price Administration, the War Production Board and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. After the Bentley charges, he was suspended as chief of the Commerce Department's export program, but later was reinstated by a loyalty board that rejected the Bentley testimony. When...
...Remington was convicted of perjury, but a Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the verdict on the technicality that the trial judge's charge to the jury had been vague. Early last year, on the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley, of his divorced wife Ann Moos Remington and others, Remington was found guilty of lying when he denied that he had known of the Young Communist League at Dartmouth and that he had given secrets to Bentley. Between the two trials, Remington remarried; a son was born a month after he started his three-year Lewisburg term in April...
...Bentley's aversion to "mealy mouthed" reviewing which leads to his highly critical notices and lends some substance to the impression that he is a man who doesn't like his jobs. Often he goes to extremes unconsciously trying to avoid the "made-up" praise of critics who have long since become bored with the theatre Although he would deny it, his work in these instances seems to disagree simply for the sake of disagreeing, to smash idols on slender pretexts from motives of sheer perversity. He scorns Shirley Booth, for instance, because she is a "common-man" actress...
...would be unfair, however, to accuse Bentley of conscious perversity because his reviews sometimes seem tiringly quarrelsome. he hopes that, "his faults as a critic are real ones, and not assumed for the occasion." Undoubtedly this is so. And undoubtedly these faults help make The Dramatic Event a worthwhile book for anyone interested in the American theatre...