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...complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts his younger brother (Tommy Cook), and does his best to exploit the emotions of the one decent girl (Debra Paget) he has ever known. All this heelish behavior is shown to be worse than mere lawbreaking, and all of it is shown to be part & parcel of a lawbreaker's mentality. The movies seldom attempt so much, and seldom carry it out with such knowing attention to character and detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Musical Courier's newly published letters (TIME, Nov. 3) had less to do with Meyerbeer's heelish behavior than with Wagner's hypocrisy-or worse. Let Reader Bold recall Biographer Newman's summing up of the Meyerbeer case: "There can be no doubt that he [Meyerbeer] exerted himself for Wagner both in Paris and in Berlin. . . It becomes more and more difficult to put up any defense against the oft-repeated charge against Wagner of ingratitude to his benefactors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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