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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Everything happens to Gervaise. At the beginning of this grim dramatization of a Zola story, the "best-looking man in the neighborhood"--to whom the lame Gervaise has been informally married for seven years--runs off with another woman, leaving the destitute heroine with two children. At the end, with her legal husband--with whom she had spent a few happy years--dead, Gervaise is homeless and penniless, sitting dazed and sullen in a small...
Miss Schell, as the unfortunate Gervaise, gives a virtuoso performance, pulling out every emotional stop, but with a restraint that makes her suffering convincing. Her tears and her simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know a good thing when they see one) have restricted Miss Schell's efforts almost exclusively to these two talents, M. Clement allows his star a fuller range of expression--with much more satisfactory results...
...very sharp Northeastern rifle team outshot Harvard last Friday night, 1422 to 1396. Dick Murphy, high scorer for Harvard with 283 points out of a possible 300, considered Northeastern "the best team in New England." Murphy is now tied with Robert Cambell of Northeastern for the Greater Boston Rifle League championship title. Ron Simon as well as Will Garrison, John North and John Phelps scored for Harvard. The team now has a 6-4 record with the Greater Boston Rifle League Championships on April 18 and 19. Simon commented that "Harvard will have a very good chance, since this will...
...their way to the Yale meet, the Freshmen defeated the best Dartmouth and Princeton Freshmen teams in recent years. The Indians had the bad luck to be the team participating in the Crimson's first nome meet, and lost by the telling score of 60-26. The Tigers were more fortunate. A somewhat rough flight to Princeton preceded a Freshman victory there by only...
...President reiterated, obviously does not want a war that might mean the destruction of civilization, although it has the strength to wage and win one. But the real, the basic issue, is how best to prevent such a war. Said the President: No nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terror of war simply by refusing to defend its rights and live up to its responsibilities. And the U.S. cannot hope to escape war by running away from it, has no intention of surrendering to the Communists at Berlin or any place else. That said, President Eisenhower offered...