Word: crawford
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...love story is as complicated as radar and as contrived as a screen queen's eyelashes. Yet scene by scene, as played by the extremely personable Phillip Terry (third and present husband of Joan Crawford) and by subtly tough Audrey Long, it becomes about twice as real as the run of movie love bouts. The singing and dancing numbers are on the whole refreshingly lacking in Hollywood's normal polish; they have, indeed, a good deal of the seamy vitality of authentic floor shows. Even more authentic is Robert Benchley's sleepy applause...
...wonder if Mr. Crawford, the Innocent Abroad, ever reads such a story as "Nazi Research?" If he does, he probably manages to disbelieve it; if he can't do that, I suppose he doesn't think it makes much difference...
...Tempest (by William Shakespeare; produced by Cheryl Crawford) was probably Shakespeare's farewell to the theater-a farewell of mingled enchantment and ennui. Done with trying to make sense of life-or even of a play-Shakespeare pitched upon a strange island world almost outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born...
Maury Maverick, head of WPB's Smaller War Plants Corp., returned from a tour of the Western Front with a string of adjectives for National Association of Manufacturers' Board Chairman Frederick C. Crawford's rosy picture of conditions in France (TIME, Jan. 15): "Infamous, superficial, cruel, obnoxious...
Next day, the New York Herald Tribune coldly took Tourist Crawford to task for his talk. "We used to have the American who applauded Mussolini because he ran trains on time. . . . Now we have Mr. Crawford . . . who believes France is a land of luxury because the Ritz Hotel. . . still has its big brass doorknobs. With this type of innocent abroad . . . there is not much that can be done...