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When his $50 million baby discovers who he really is, she decides to dose him with his own poison-lurid publicity-and issues a fake announcement of their marriage. His paper fires him, of course, and for the next few reels, editors, lawyers and even the handsome young couple energetically worry the question: Did the nice newsman really marry the naughty rich girl, or didn't he? As all the din begins to fade, the answer seems to be: he didn't, but he will...
...much horror, the play loses its impact. The characters get to be much less human beings than mere Existencils; the ideas lack value because Sartre insists on using them as bombs rather than light bulbs. For all its intellectualism, The Victors is so crammed to the brim with lurid scenes and dated dramaturgy that there is a strange air about it of the Franco-Prussian...
Lend an Ear attempts other targets with varying aim: those squalid Latin American tourist villages where hot sex and heavy gunfire are hourly occurrences in the public square; a bandleader and his wife sweating to live up to the lurid-and contradictory-bulletins the columnists issue about them; an old-fashioned Friday afternoon dancing class, in which the Penrod motif loses out to the pretty-pretty. There are the usual-all-too-usual-dance numbers in Lend an Ear, and some pleasantly forgettable tunes...
...Cutting Edges. What manner of man is this Howard Hughes-this tall, gangling, aging, sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend...
George Bernard Shaw, who once commissioned Topolski to illustrate three of his plays, has described him as "perhaps the greatest of all impressionists in black & white." In color, Topolski's impressionism is more lurid than deft. He is at his best doing people. Shaw himself appears (in black & white) as a shaggy, willowy old pantaloon, ready to explode with the wit & wisdom of a ripe...