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...fancied insult in connection with the order, Marie got a razor, slashed the Black Boy from its frame, toted it, with the other two pictures, to the Hampton Bays estate. There she built a fire in an outdoor oven, burned the Black Boy and Charles the Bold to a crisp, scattered the half-charred remains of the Wayfarer on the beach, where the tides of Shinnecock Bay soon swallowed them. The Black Boy was insured for $25,000, the other two for $19,000. Last week, recovering from a suicide attempt in Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital prison ward, Marie...
...Bergman wrings credit from the tortured script. Her portrayal of the unfortunate barmaid who charms Jekyll only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...
...ironies that Authoress Strauss did not foresee. Irony No. 1: Her leftist criticisms will do much to reassure U.S. readers not dedicated to perpetuating social chaos that Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, et al. are responsible leaders. Irony No. 2: From Author Strauss's book emerges an unusually crisp self-portrait of the radical intellectual mind-its arid cleverness, doctrinaire arrogance, urban provincialism, intolerant insistence on substituting ideas for life...
Interviewed in Berlin by TIME'S Stephen Laird, who described him as "a tall, handsome, crisp-mannered, crisp-dressed person, with crisp iron-grey hair, gritted eyes and teeth," the Goebbels galloper disclosed he had gone to private school in Baltimore, never to college, entered the advertising business at 18, got a commission in the Navy just before the close of World War I, ran a signed news-roundup column after the war in the Baltimore Sunday American called This and That...
...Small, crisp, chirrupy Movie Pioneer Charles Pathé, 78, who started the first newsreel in France in 1909 and in the U.S. in 1910, landed in Manhattan by Clipper from Lisbon, announced that he was through with films. "It is a young man's game," said...