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...will move next week to a more commodious theater. Berliners, wearily familiar with occupation armies, were delighted with an American play that deliberately spoofed the U.S. Army's postwar occupation of Okinawa (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953). When Sakini, the raffish Okinawan, declares that "democracy is exhausting," German audiences howl. The boffo line for Berliners comes in the scene where Colonel Purdy announces his determination to bring democracy to the islanders if he has to "shoot every last one of them." Any nation that could kid its own foibles was, to Berliners, something new and pleasant...
Batlle Berres' opponents, especially the wool and cattle barons of the interior, howl that this is Red socialism. But since under Batllismo Uruguay has Latin America's highest standard of living and no income tax, Uruguayans invariably vote for it. As for Communism, Batlle Berres opposes it with a technique that Uruguayans call "killing it with liberty." The Red vote dropped from 32,000 in 1946 to 17,000 in this month's election...
...couple of voices cried "shame," but Churchill insisted: "I am giving you the story quite straightly and bluntly." In Manhattan, reporters pounced on Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, who looked astonished but admitted: "It's true, it's true." Laborites set up a howl of indignation. Bevanite Barbara Castle, though she had signed the presentation book, announced that she had canceled her contribution to Churchill's birth day fund, since "I do not desire to pay tribute to a man who now reveals he was prepared to ... create a pact with Nazi forces more infamous...
...Technicolor is a little too muddy for comfort, but the players wade around in it bravely. Charles Bickford plays the big producer with vigor, and Jack Carson is a howl as a pressagent. Actor Mason right to his alcoholic end, glows with a seamless health and handsomeness that may delight the pinup trade but will hardly convince anybody who has ever had a hangover...
...come back to drink his blood. For she. like the others, had become a vampire. This embarrassing domestic crisis (he eventually drives a stake through her heart) is only one of the milder episodes in I Am Legend. Every night the vampires gather outside Neville's barricaded house, howl and gibber-for he happens to be the last man in the world. Among the callers is a charming young lady vampire who looks at the whole thing with a new, vampire morality (a kind of relativism), and to her, Neville with his stakes is a foul murderer. Sure...