Word: lovelornness
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...film scores, Antheil has been busy recently on a violin concerto, piano sonatas and a string quartet. A few years ago he wrote his autobiography, Bad Boy of Music, in which he bade a fervent farewell to jangle, for a while even wrote a column of advice to the lovelorn for the Chicago Sun syndicate. But he has now given literature up, too. "It's silly for a composer to write a book," he says. "I'm just too busy to be sensational any more...
...picture opens in Africa, where toughly sentimental Gregory Peck lies dying of gangrene. While vultures perch hungrily on a nearby tree, Peck trades cynical dialogue with his wealthy wife (Susan Hay ward) and relives some of the juicier parts of his Casanova past. The lovelorn trail begins with Teen-Ager Helene Stanley, who was jilted by Peck in consideration of a new rifle and an assured income from Uncle Leo G. Carroll. Next comes Paris, which gives Director Henry King a chance to create an evocative scene of a hot jazz concert of the 1920s, featuring the alto...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Mon. 9:30 p.m.. NBC). Christopher Morley's Advice to the Lovelorn...
...Journal and Bulletin (circ. 187,545) are pleased with Columnist Chase. Surveys show that 21% of men readers and 53% of the women read him-more than read the Hollywood columns, advice to the lovelorn, or even Pogo...
Westward the Women (MGM) is the showmanlike saga of an 1851 trek halfway across the U.S. by 140 women, recruited to marry the lovelorn settlers of a California valley. Rancher John McIntire signs up the prospective wives for his men, lets them pick their mates from a bulletin board full of daguerreotypes. Then hard-bitten Scout Robert Taylor rides herd on the ladies on the dangerous wagon-trail to the West...