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...Size. Somewhere in the byplay New Jersey's fat (330 Ibs.), jolly T. James Tumulty was needled with the gentle observation that he straddles too many fences. "My dear man," replied Democrat Tumulty. "I am so large I could represent all sections.'' Twitted Pennsylvania's Republican Jim Fulton: "The gap between the front and back of this Democratic Party is just big enough for you to fill...
Columnist Drew Pearson, whose inside stories sometimes have the facts wrong side out, had a sizzling inside story early this month for his readers in 600 papers. Wrote Pearson: "Here is some of the vitally important backstage byplay which took place immediately after the President was stricken in Denver." The story: Vice President Nixon had attempted "to take over the reins of Government" on the night of Sept...
...Desperate Hours, as a matter of fact, is quite complex throughout. William Wyler's direction has decorated the plot with small incidents and byplay which illuminate the characters but do not slow down the speed with which the picture races to its climax. Nor does Wyler ever stop to interject some sort of vague message or a commentary on such topics as police corruption. There is a statement about that, but it has its function in the story. And although the film does not strain for a message, it still has a point: a man's greatest dignity comes from...
Uniform of the day was the blue, brass-buttoned blazer and snappy nautical cap of the well-heeled yachtsman; the easy banter was the well-oiled chatter of pleasure-boat skippers out for a good time. But back of the byplay, the briefing session in the Travers Island boathouse of the New York Athletic Club one evening last week was as studied and serious as a premission meeting of wartime PT-boat skippers...
Such a plot is old and shop-worn. But Phelps arranges effective byplay between the figures in the painting, the artist, and the two women spectators. He allows Hawthorne to speak a long monologue filled with poetry that is at times truly beautiful; yet if it were no for the warm voice and delicate diction of Edward Thommen, so long a speech would have seemed dull. Robert Heavenridge, as Melville, and Martin Halpern, as the artist, are quite good, while Mathida Hills, playing the first woman, perfectly captures the terrified shyness intended by Phelps, and Elinor Fuchs is wonderfully funny...