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...Tear-Jerker. Ophelia is not an easy role, nor is it any too clearly written. Most actresses who try it (besides being old enough to spank Polonius) are likely to play the sane scenes like mad scenes and the mad scenes like a little-theater production of Ring Lardner's Clemo Uti, or the Water Lilies...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...
...Each His Own. Olivia de Havilland suffers & suffers as an unwed mother in an expertly made, artfully played tear-jerker (TIME, June...
Besides the millions of women it is aimed at, this film may interest students of the fantasy-life of U.S. womanhood in its less attractive aspects. It is a tear-jerker that is consistently slick and at moments almost believable...
...America" contest (TIME, Nov. 19), he was happy to get the $2,500, said it "comes in handy." By last week he was less happy about it. Pepsi-Cola apparently did not agree with the artists' jury which had given top honors to Burlin's Soda Jerker. Burlin's heavily satirical picture, which was as cluttered as a cosmetics counter and as messy-looking as a spilled sundae, had been omitted from Pepsi-Cola's New Year calendar, which contained reproductions of twelve other prizewinners. Pepsi-Cola has a stake in the dignity of the American...