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...time he bounded into the U.N.'s roomy Security Council chamber, more than 300 reporters, delegates and hangers-on awaited him. Wearing a grey suit and a shiny celluloid collar, Vishinsky posed briefly for photographers. Then began a turbulent 2½-hour press conference. While the bored reporters squirmed, Vishinsky read a ten-page manuscript. Vishinsky's Russian was crisp and emphatic; he seemed annoyed at the interpreter's colorless, halting rendition. The statement was a fingerpointing, arm-waving rehash of his attack on U.S. "warmongers" (TIME, Sept. 29). This time, Vishinsky proposed that the "warmongers" should...
...metamorphosis from printed page to stage to screen even somebody as lively as father is bound to lose a little briskness, but this celluloid version lacks something besides originality. "Life" can be quite gay when Clarence Day is encountered in the book, where the innuendoes and phraseology of his clever creators supplant visual aids, or in the play, where the three dimensionality of the stage draws an audience into his library. But, on the screen, it takes a few reels to get used to father, and even then you may be left wondering whether the movie is just an avaricious...
...distention of James Thurber's short story about a daydreaming timid-soul, is Danny Kaye's funniest movie. Henpecked half out of his senses by his mother (Fay Bainter) and threatened with worse by a sinister fiancee (Ann Rutherford) and prospective mother-in-law (Florence Bates), the celluloid Mitty (Kaye) deserves a Secret Life if ever a man did. He has several, all derived from the ferocious pulps he is paid to proofread...
...female in front of her, "Would you mind removing your hat, please?" From there on, it's deuces (and Queens) wild, with an intended or unintended laugh ever 7 1-2 seconds, and a chance to receive the most erroneous impression of a historical period that ever engraved upon celluloid. Scene the Second: in struts Charles Laughton as the marrying king, with some of the placid content of an enraged bull in a cow pasture. You won't have half as good a time as he's going to have in this piece, but don't let that worry your...
...that isn't all the Harvard Square opera house has to offer the kiddies. There's one more sweet, this time wrapped in technicolor celluloid. It involves a music box, a lot of people dancing in masquerade, and a freckled little girl in pigtails and pajamas, among other inedible. But it's only a short--just enough time for a cigaret in the large, well-lighted lobby...