Word: gauntness
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Cast with Australian players, the level of acting falls below the high standard generally set in English pictures, yet the slight amateurism does not detract greatly from the overall effect of the picture. Chips Rafferty as the tall, gaunt trail boss, can both act and ride, giving an excellent picture of a single-minded bush rider. "The Overlanders" admirably combines simple historical fact with a feasible amount of action to become one of the few examples of a vivid and unprocessed documentary film. The only annoying moment during the picture is the indignant attempt of the Boston Censors to seratch...
...chief actor in this story-a gaunt, red-haired Californian whose pen name is Harold Maine-last week published his autobiography (If a Man Be Mad, Doubleday; $3). It is a sobering account, not only of a drunkard's inner agonies, but of U.S. mental hospitals...
...concert reached a terrific climax with the coming of Billie Holiday dressed in a dazzling evening gown. Each time after her thin, vibrato-less voice had gone through its intense phrasing of a gaunt little tune like "Good Morning Heartache" the crowd clapped ardently and stamped their feel. Finally she did a simple, stark presentation of "Strange Fruit," which carried more punch than Lillian Smith's novel, and then she disappeared despite her howling admirers. They stamped, and shricked, and ranted, and raved. Finally Louis, anxious to get on with the show, said, "Take it easy, she's just gone...
...then, too, FitzGerald had begun to wonder if his lonely, esthetical life were not a huge mistake-"[a] seedy dullness ... a ... total failure and mess." He proceeded to complete the mess by marrying a gaunt Sunday-school teacher. "Lucy Barton," says tactful Biographer Terhune, "was doubtless attractive; but she lacked physical charm." "I am going to be married -don't congratulate me," the bridegroom told a friend. He turned up at church in "an old slouch hat," spoke only once at the wedding breakfast. Offered some blanc mange, he waved it away, muttering "Ugh! Congealed bridesmaid...
...Moving Finger. The authorized version stopped suddenly with young Hearst's 1895 invasion of New York. Old Hearst (in whose presence age is not discussed) was still living out the last chapter last week. In his 84th year (his birthday is April 29), the gaunt old man with haunted eyes is no longer the whirlwind. Neither is life at San Simeon, his 275,000-acre seat of empire, where Hearst once thought nothing of entertaining 80 house guests at a time...