Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Birthdays. Katharine Cornell, grande dame of the American theatre, her 43rd, by reviving Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, putting her able cast through its pre-Manhattan paces in Detroit. Wendell L. Willkie, his 49th, without cake-cutting. Gloria Laura Morgan Vanderbilt, tabloid darling, her 17th, still a year away from her debutante splash...
...first time since "Ecstasy" Lamarr makes l'amour and makes it right. Don't misunderstand--Hays hasn't let everything go and Hedy doesn't get negligent with her negligee again. Rather, she has finally found a part where her flat, undramatic voice isn't out of place. Cast as an old-fashioned Communist who believes the executions should be stopped while there still are a few Russians left, Hedy is crossed up by her tutor who becomes state censor and executioner himself after arranging a fatal accident for his predecessor. The line of Russians that become Kremlin corpses after...
...time has come, the director said, to think of better movies and things. So he did. He combined an excellent, even superb, story with a top notch cast and set out to produce a masterpiece which was billed as "The Philadelphia Story." He had seen Katherine Hepburn in the stage production of the play and decided, correctly too, that she was the ultimate as far as the part of Tracy Lord was concerned. Next he hied himself over to the masculine department of the studio, picking out Gary Grant and Jimmy Stewart for the supporting male roles. Thus far this...
...problem of war-time censorship cast its inevitable shadow on the field of education last Saturday when Ralph W. Robey, Assistant Professor of Banking at Columbia, finished perusing six hundred text books and decided that they tended "to belittle our form of government and criticize the system of business enterprise." When he released his black list under the aegis of the powerful National Association of Manufacturers, people started taking him-seriously...
Martin du Card had a home in Normandy when the Germans broke into France last year. With his wife, who had a broken arm and shoulder in a plaster cast, he fled to the south of France, where he still is. The Nazis thoroughly messed up the Normandy house, but Stuart Gilbert, who was translating the last of Les Thibault into English, managed to slip out with his manuscript. Published this week as Summer 1914, it brings the novel to a close (1,800-odd pages in all) and also finishes off the Thibaults as a family...