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...before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose morning diversion is watching excavations, discussing Capital and Labor while they wait for the noon whistle to blow so that they can go to lunch...
...CARLETON SEMPLE...
...Carleton B. Swift, Jr. -- Miss Helen-Merriman, Eliot House
Twenty years ago Carleton Beals landed in Mexico City. He had "youth, a good physique, two university degrees," but no money, and his clothes were in rags. Since then he has witnessed four Mexican revolutions, once taught military English to Carranza's staff, lectured on Shakespeare to the women of Mexico City's American colony, was held incommunicado by a Mexican general for an unflattering article, is now the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America...
Last week Carleton Beals told the story of the first ten years of his journalistic career. Main exhibits in Glass Houses are not Latin American politics, but the little-known expatriate life of Mexico City. By comparison with the post-War Bohemianism of Mexico City he describes, Greenwich Village during the same period seems as innocent as a kindergarten. Mexico City swarmed with shady refugees from Europe, was headquarters for big plotters like the fabulous Russian Borodin (alias Ginzberg), with whom Beals used to quarrel over Realpolitik and eugenics. Borodin, claims Beals, invited him to participate in a plot...