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...ripe tomato hurled over the footlights. His son (Dan Dailey) sticks to him longer han his two confectionery blonde daughters, and this protracted loyalty gives Dailey a chance to do some insignificant but pleasant singing and dancing. But finally he too concludes that life with his best girl (Nancy Guild) is preferable to a routine of Indian clubs and straw...
...being so honest with each other McKelway and Buchanan raised a clear-cut issue that had the C.I.O. American Newspaper Guild in a dither of soul-searching last week. The Star unit of the Guild first tried to ignore the case, and the city-wide executive board of the Guild refused to go to bat for Communist Buchanan. But, just to be sure that it was speaking for its membership, the board called for a referendum vote on whether Communists can be fired simply for being Communists...
Before the balloting, everybody had his say. Urged the board minority: "The issue . . . is whether the Guild, to which [Buchanan] has paid his dues, will represent his interests . . . just as a lawyer represents a client with whom he may disagree." Said the majority report: "The contract provides that there shall be no discharge except for just & sufficient cause . . . We believe membership in the Communist Party to be such a cause . . . We do not feel that we can require a newspaper to retain a reporter who no longer has value." It wasn't just a case of which-party...
Author Kendrick, a well-known whodunit writer (Blind Man's Bluff), now apparently setting out for bigger game, has bagged it. This cliché-clogged historical novel is the July choice of the Literary Guild...
...Theatre Guild...