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...Anna's past and present move at conflicting levels. Hence, after windy, uninspired love passages, O'Neill keeps writing harsh scenes that the play itself does not seem ready for. Anna is as much betrayed by the story as by Life. Both her washed-up father, cursing dat ole davil sea as a way of exonerating himself, and her lover, who should either be less Irish or more poetic, are hollow men who precipitate farce and even bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

What, who dare say Mister Johnson 'fraid? Johnson say, what dat mean dat word 'fraid? What dat mean 'fraid? Is it good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blithe Spirit | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

...intact, with 25,000 Chinese, Malays, Indians and natives at the base, 80 Europeans at the top. The only revolutionary the Keiths had to keep tab on was little Georgie Keith, 7. To Mrs. Keith's dismay, he began spouting pidgin English: "Aw, Ma, dey all spik like dat!" "But that's not English you are talking. You must stop." "O.K., Mum. I no talk like dat any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to Borneo | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...which had not been called for, and demanding to be paid. Flabbergasted, William swore he had never ordered the suit and finally put his mother on the phone. After some angry argument, she challenged the tailor to describe William.† "Ha!" said Jim. "It's a fine mudder dat don't even know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Priceless Gift of Laughter | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man) in a small voice which, for all its amplification on the sound track, sounds as if it would not actually be audible across the show boat's footlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

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