Word: hitchcock
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Commonweal. Later he specialized in German affairs, wrote the footnotes to Reynal & Hitchcock's edition of Mein Kampf. In World War I he was a sergeant; now he serves on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations. Another great current interest of President Shuster is the college community center, near Hunter's superb, modernistic building on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue. It is the Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the united former town houses of President Roosevelt and his mother. Attractively refurnished in what Dr. Shuster calls "B. Altman Empire" style, the center is used...
Phantom Lady (Universal) is the maiden production of Joan Harrison, who used to be Alfred Hitchcock's Girl Friday and who now becomes one of the few women producers in Hollywood's history.-Phantom Lady lags behind Hitchcock's best films, but it has picked up enough from them to sprint laps ahead of most thrillers...
...scare. Some of the dialogue is ham, and toward the end the picture's edginess blunts noticeably. But the bar and bartender, the damp night streets, a late-night elevated platform, and a jam session that looks like an expressionistic death dance, have a good deal of Hitchcock's sinister melo-realistic melancholy...
...Love, No Laughs. Hitchcock is no improviser. By the time shooting starts he knows the script by heart, knows to the last foot every effect he proposes to get out of the picture. He is a good actor, a superb teacher, a meticulous director. He will spend ten minutes not only demonstrating but explaining why a certain effect will be achieved if the actor gets less animation into his hands. Then he will do the scene himself. He never enacts a love scene; he will not risk a laugh...
...Director Hitchcock always appears for a moment in each of his films. It is his way of "signing" his pictures. But there was no room or excuse for him in the lifeboat. So in the middle of a news page-which has precious little business in Lifeboat either-Hitchcock planted himself, in bulbous profile, as the before-&-after model in a reducing...