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...Hughes libretto, Bert, mulatto son of a white plantation owner and a Negro housekeeper, puts his white half forward after he comes home from World War II. He begins mildly enough; he just drinks his Coke in the drugstore like anybody else, instead of taking it out back...
Then he defies his father, Colonel Norwood, by entering the big house by the front door. When his outraged father (Baritone Paul Elmer) threatens him with a gun, Bert strangles the old sinner before he can fire a shot. After that, the only thing left for Bert is to shoot himself before the libretto lynching party catches up with...
...their daily and hourly deadlines. But TIME does keep on top of the news. In the last few weeks TIME had two solid newsbeats on the most important news story in Washington: the hammering out of a new U.S. policy toward Asia. The New York Herald Tribune's Bert Andrews, one of Washington's best newsmen, called TIME'S stories "a magnificent job of enterprising reporting...
After a fourth season of sagging attendance and mounting deficits in both leagues, National League club owners deputized thick-set League Commissioner Bert Bell to deal secretly with Manhattan Attorney J. Arthur Friedlund, the chosen negotiator of the All-America Conference. In two days & nights of almost continuous bargaining in Philadelphia's Racquet Club, the two men reached agreement...
...television fame of a comic who specializes in gag-stealing and belligerent self-interest, and stops at nothing to keep an audience laughing. The movie includes an endless parade of vaudeville turns with Berle running through his television repertory, throwing in some slapdash imitations of Ted Lewis, Al Jolson, Bert Lahr, et al. Though most of the skits are single-set affairs shot by a rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please...