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...Oregonian in twelve years, was changing the Post's ways slowly, but in one year he had done a lot. His single concession to the old gaudiness was the Post's pink-paper Page One; otherwise the sideshow days were over. By shaking down the crazy-quilt make-up and flamboyant headlines, Hoyt saved 98 columns of space weekly, used part of them for better news coverage, loaded the rest with advertising. Even though Hoyt had increased its editorial staff from 55 to 80, the Post had the most profitable year in its history. The Post...
...acted with clean competence-a mite too clean -by handsome Gregory Peck, 6ft. 3 in. Glum, discouraged Ma Baxter is impersonated with affecting skill by Jane Wyman, whose talents have been wasted for years by Warner Bros, in pert ingénue roles. But even in scrubbed, unlipsticked make-up Miss Wyman's trim face & figure are a glamorized caricature of the novel's bulky Ma Baxter...
...smart phraseology, and only occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need for "Radditudes" to jazz up its make-up, throw some color and life on its cover, try, something audacious in its contents, and build up the respect of readers, advertisers, and contributors alike...
...conventional beauty, but her face is founded on beautifully modeled, well-spaced bones. It will be a pity if Hollywood's make-up experts are tempted to tamper with her thick, dark eyebrows and wide, expressive mouth. Her legs are all right as they...
...picture's main concession to period realism: Miss Oberon's remarkable hourglass figure, apparently devised by an efficient studio make-up department to set off her eye-popping 1900 wardrobe. Merle plays an unprincipled baggage who succeeds in marrying Archeologist George Brent over the protests of Brent's worldly friend and physician, Dr. Paul Lukas. After a few days in turn-of-the-century Egypt, surrounded by her husband's tiresome scientific friends, Merle gets a discontented look...