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...sudden fact of war caught Hollywood with its make-up off. Before the first blackout of Los Angeles, the citadel of cinemadom camouflaged its feelings with a vigorous regurgitation of gags. The blackout somehow changed things; everybody wanted to do something to help...
...familiar to Broadway for a generation, with her hard little face and her soft, flabby hips. Theatre needs all the expert make-up and massage that Playwrights Bolton & Maugham know how to apply, all the stage presence and vivacity that Cornelia Otis Skinner brings to the role of the brummagem heroine. Even so, it's not very pleasant...
Spencer Tracy takes up the task of portraying the famous dual personality without the help of more than a few pounds of make-up, and relies upon mugging and histrionics to do the rest. His is the case of a man trying to take some of the duties of the divine into his own hands. As Jekyll and Hyde, he proves his point about the portions of good and evil in the human system, but pays the supreme sacrifice for his presumption. With more than his ordinary zeal for a part, perhaps too much. Tracy nevertheless does a thoroughly good...
...competition for the literary board will not begin for another two weeks. Hooper will put his seven photo board candidates to work on the make-up and pictures which will go into the Register, and James McNulty '45, recently appointed Business Chairman, will send some of his 20 candidates out hunting for advertising, while the rest will work on circulation...
...Gauvreau hoots at Winchell's illiteracy (he called Zola a famed woman writer, described Paris as a seaport city), damns Winchell for perfecting the kind of tabloid journalism he himself did most to encourage. Editing Winchell for libel "developed in me a philosophical imperturbability which, otherwise, my nervous make-up might never have acquired." Said Arthur Brisbane of Winchell's jargon: "Shake speare described it. 'A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...