Word: dalles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murderers (Farley Granger) is horrified by what they have done and gradually comes apart. The other (John Dall) is almost hard enough to carry them both. He is particularly excited by the presence of the teacher, a sort of armchair nihilist who first infected the boys' minds with the idea that there are superior men, above all moral law. Dall really wants to lay the corpse at his master's feet, the way a cat brings in a slaughtered robin. When he finally does, he finds that the teacher's endorsement of murder was always purely academic...
...Angeles, Curtis Boettiger, 18, famed during the '30s as White House grandchild Buzzie Dall, now an assistant radio producer, came down with polio, an affliction not unfamiliar to his mother, Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. He was still hopeful that he would be able to act as secretary to his grandmother when the U.N. meets in Paris later this month. His doctors described the attack as definitely "a mild case...
Something in the Wind (Universal-International) tries desperately, and without success, to make a hepcat out of Deanna Durbin. As a lady disc jockey who breaks into song at improbable moments, Deanna runs afoul of a socialite prig (John Dall) who thinks she is out to blackmail him. While giving him his comeuppance, she hopefully wiggles her hips and sings a couple of songs in the manner of a self-consciously refined Betty Hutton. Instead of seizing its opportunity for a few good-natured jabs at the jitterbug cult, Something in the Wind quickly sinks in a welter of foolish...
Displayed next was a Dall motif (later corrected by Mr. Dame as a Degas motif) with a fascinating apple-green bodice-bow, which kept perfect time to the background music. "I don't like her; her arms are funny," said Vaughn, adding, "They shoulda put price tags on them...
Charles W. Dall...