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Dark Eyes (by Elena Miramova and Eugenie Leontovich; produced by Jed Harris). Russian-American Actresses Miramova and Leontovich have scribbled a farce about Russian-American actresses and handed themselves the two gaudiest roles. They have banged away at the Slavic artistic temperament as if it were a set of bowling pins. Their game is good and rackety, their score not too high...
Miramova's and Leontovich's skillful acting helps to hide their wobbly playwriting, and Jed Harris' expert direction helps further. But a whole evening of temperament, even when it is spoofed, is pretty monotonous. When it is Russian temperament to boot, it becomes downright exhausting...
Once married to the late Actor Gregory Kelly, once rumored married to Producer Jed Harris, Actress Gordon fortnight ago married Private Garson Kanin, wiry, 30-year-old former boy wonder among Hollywood directors...
...John Taber of New York took up his snickersnee, whacked $130 millions off with one slash. But the auction settled down at $95 million; then the full committee sliced it to $75,000,000 before the bill went to the House floor. Fighters Taber and Oklahoma's Jed Johnson, veteran Henderson-haters, vowed to carry on, fight right to the House floor. Their goal: to see to it that Henderson got by on what was finally approved, to make him use volunteer price watchers...
What hurts Congress are Henderson's non-political appointments. Yet Congressmen are infuriated at hints that they want to get their hands on the fat jobs. Stormed Jed Johnson: "These patronage stories sound very much like Henderson propaganda for the purpose of bailing him out with the public and making him appear as a martyr. The present Price Administrator apparently enjoys his role as he poses as a bully and a bluffer, a self-inflated bureaucrat who evidently envisions himself as a dictator...