Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Much or Little. In the committee room, where the main bout took place, there was an air of determined calm. Robert Gorham Davis, Smith College English professor and first witness at the open hearings, patiently repeated a personal history. He had joined the Communist Party in 1937 while teaching at...
When Miss Davis scornfully berates her predatory relatives or falteringly comforts her daughter, the picture is carried along by her skill. To watch her clerking in a department store or collapsing at a filming is not sympathetic however, only ludicrous. Her problems seem unimportant because Margaret is never abandoned or...
It isn't the theme of The Star which lacks luster, for similar stories of a fading actress were presented sharply and adroitly in All About Eve and Sunset Boulevard. Nor is Bette Davis disappointing: she shrieks, she bellows, she rolls her prodigious eyes. But this time the script is...
As Margaret Elliott, a falling movie star, Miss Davis alternates between rational evaluations of her life and the erratic misdeeds of a psychotic. The former are to make Miss Davis appealing, the latter to provide continual opportunity for dramatics. The result is a few good scenes but a confused characterization...
Tough Talk. Last week the U.S., fearful that even the sometime-peace was now about to blow up, stepped into the picture. In Tel Aviv, U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, a quiet, methodical career diplomat of the old school, handed Israel a note that was diplomatic but plain. The U.S...