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William Bendix is a likable and sincere actor, but his natural good temper shines fatally through his industrious soot-&-greasepaint toughness. Susan Hayward, as the girl who drives him crazy, is much tougher, too coarsely so for the size of the girl's penthouse or the height of her social standing, but she is more convincing. She is, in fact, Hollywood's ablest bitch-player...
...Frankenstein is dead, but the monster lives on forever and only a little warmth is needed to bring him out of an ice-cake coma. Lon Chaney does the honors to this former Kario: monopoly but no one could ever recognize a person under that mound of greasepaint and sponge-rubber anyway. Bela Lugosi as the wolfman who finds warm blood and moonshine a most stimulating combination, grows progressively more and more, and less and less hirstute as the moons wax and wane...
While socialites donned their stuffed shirts and tiaras for the opening sessions of Manhattan's new opera season (see above), five of the season's 14 singer-debutantes lathered themselves with greasepaint for their first appearances on the Western Hemisphere's most celebrated stage. To dowdy singers who have already appeared on other famous stages, debuts still rate second only to the Christian sacraments...
...Delta pledge at Wisconsin, but his work in the Union shows there made him set his mind on one single thing, motion pictures. In 1915 Grinde cooled his heels waiting to see a famous director to ask him for a job. He gave up waiting and took to the greasepaint road as Chic Sale's publicity manager. Years later Nick was directing Joan Crawford in a picture. One of the extras was the once-famous director. Grinde is now on the Warner Brothers lot and you may have seen his latest, Public Enemy's Wife...
From the point of view of vitality, Ben Hecht's stories are only mildly, Kay Boyle's bitterly, alive. A theatrical, rococo writer, Showman Hecht spreads hokum and verbiage with a lavish hand. Most effective in this swollen vein when he writes about the greasepaint dramatics of Broadway or the alcoholic hilarities of fabulous newshawks, at his middling worst he seems a dim shadow of O. Henry or Edgar Allan Poe. Best story in the book (Snowfall in Childhood) stands out like Shirley Temple on the stage of the Grand Guignol: a simply written reminiscence of first love...