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And the fire gives out a jolly roaring flame,

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oldest Editor Recalls Origin Of Traditional Poker Game | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

Purity with Popcorn. Writes Critic Kerr: "The Church in this country has . . . seemed to say, 'I don't care what the quality of the art work is, so long as its content is innocuous, or perhaps favorably disposed in our direction . . .' A film featuring a saint is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Catholics & the Movies | 12/22/1952 | See Source »

Against such somber lovers, the play sets a rich old blind lady who finds happiness in the teachings of a jolly, messy apostle of The All-Effulgent. Very possibly these two, like Eliot's silly "assistants" in The Cocktail Party, symbolize a serenity unknown to prideful intellectuals; but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1952 | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

Wrote Exhibitor Frank E. Sabin, from Eureka, Mont. (pop. 929): "[A Place in the Sun is] definitely not classed as entertainment by my patrons. A sordid sort of thing all through. [Montgomery] Clift and [Shelley] Winters just moped around for the first 80 minutes-then he drowned her and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Severest Critics | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

From her perch on the edge of a bathtub, red-haired Denise Delfau swung her pretty legs and contentedly scribbled in a notebook. It was all quite jolly, except for the water that occasionally splashed on to her clothes when the naked, groaning creature in the tub thrashed in agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Gestapo of Rue de la Pompe | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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