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Fowler gives new spin to Barrymore's overadvertised failings by making figures speak louder than words. In his first ten years in Hollywood, Barrymore earned $2,634,500, squandered almost every cent of it. A steady drinker at 14, in his last 40 years-a doctor estimated-Barrymore swallowed "640 barrels of hard stuff." Once, while suffering from extreme fatigue, he tackled a script 56 times, could never recite it through. Otherwise he was seldom at a loss for words. Good Night, Sweet Prince offers many a fresh example of Barrymore's under-the-table talk...
...real significance of the C.C.F. investigation into life insurance was not that it would be political, which it most certainly would be. The fact that C.C.F. leaders were willing to attack the giant insurance companies meant they had apparently decided that the time had come to talk even louder about the party's Socialist objectives...
...atrocities of war . . . the spectacle of Spaniards fighting among themselves; and all the time, like the drone of a bagpipe accompanying the louder noises of what is officially called history, the enormous stupidity of average men and women, the chronic squalor of their superstitions, the bestiality of their occasional violences and orgies . . . Goya recorded...
...second night a three-minute earthquake rattled the chandeliers and the audience alike, but failed to halt the show. Carradine, who has had trouble getting back his ability to project his voice after long whispering into movie mikes, merely spoke louder. The audience stopped buzzing after some sailors yelled "Shut up, everybody...
...soon as the Quebec sunshine faded, Mackenzie King faced his gravest home-front crisis of the war. Louder than ever, Canadians asked: 1) why prices continue to climb despite numerous war controls and restrictions; 2) why Canada's manpower seems so planlessly distributed; 3) why Prime Minister Mackenzie King avoids a Federal election...