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This rather florid drama is written with considerable Broadway sleekness by Garson Kanin and his wife, Actress Ruth Gordon, and is appropriately directed by George Cukor. It offers Signe Hasso her best chance to date to prove that her beauty and talent deserve better roles than she usually gets; Newcomer Shelley Winters makes a sure hit as a waitress...
...Florid, flustered Laborite Allighan, an ex-Fleet Streeter, had made an abject apology. But to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison's proposal that Allighan be suspended for six months, Winston Churchill snapped: "How can you stigmatize a Member as dishonorable . . . and then after an interval . . . resume calling him an Honorable Member?" The House agreed. Shortly after his expulsion Allighan resigned from the Labor Party...
...blonde wife Brenda strolled along Plymouth's Mill Street. They talked shop with the editor of the weekly Plymouth Review (circ. 2,100), visited a cheese factory, munched Schwaller's hamburgers ("biggest in Wisconsin"). Sighed Chris: "It's wonderful!" Editor Christiansen, a gregarious man with a florid cherub's face and a mockingbird's sense of humor, felt as much at home in Plymouth as he does back home in Holland...
...many first-nighters last week what it seemed to Macaulay a hundred years ago-Euripides' greatest play. To be sure, Euripides didn't have much to do with last week's enthusiasm. More in the limelight was Poet Robinson Jeffers for his quite free, sometimes florid, but generally effective adaptation. Still more in the limelight was John Gielgud for his skillful staging (though not for his performance as Jason). Most in the limelight was Judith Anderson for her really tremendous performance in the title role...
...Unconquered (Paramount) is Cecil Blount DeMille's florid, $5,000,000, Technicolored celebration of Gary Cooper's virility, Paulette Goddard's femininity and the American Frontier Spirit. The movie is getting such stentorian ballyhoo that a lot of cinemagoers are likely to think less of it than it deserves. It is, to be sure, a huge, high-colored chunk of hokum; but the most old-fashioned thing about it is its exuberance, a quality which 66-year-old Director DeMille preserves almost single-handed from the old days when even the people who laughed at movies couldn...