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Unwilling to make any definite commitments about the conference, cagey Argentine Foreign Minister José M. Cantilo cautiously proclaimed a policy of "continental solidarity and autonomy of action," carefully remained in Buenos Aires on a plea of pressing domestic problems. In his place bald, scholarly Dr. Leopoldo Melo, onetime Minister of the Interior, will head the Argentine delegation, accompanied by Felipe A. Espil, Argentine Ambassador in Washington...
Nobody else can. For Alfred Hitchcock directed Rebecca, and the 17-stone British melo-maestro knows that nothing is more mysterious in a film than extra sensory perceptions. He knows too that of all mysterious things the most mysterious can be the ordinary human face...
Author Zweig's characters are often stiff, symbolic, vague, even dull. But their melo dramatic personal histories make Beware of Pity worth reading...
That the elements of a Hitchcock melo drama provoke an excitement utterly lacking when the same elements are combined by less skillful directors is due to Director Hitchcock's unique talent for cinematic story construction and his unparalleled diligence in employing it. Before a Hitch cock picture goes before the cameras, it has been written four times; by Hitchcock himself, by Hitchcock and a scenario writer, by Hitchcock and a dialogue writer and finally by Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville. Once work begins on the set, it progresses rapidly. Because Hitchcock considers it unnecessary to ex plain...
...best known in the U. S. for his Lesbian play, The Captive, produced in Manhattan in 1927 and subsequently banned by the police. Swordsman Bernstein is best known for his play The Thief, which ran on Broadway for nine months in 1907-08, has been twice revived. His Melo, produced in Manhattan in 1931, was last year made into the cinema Dreaming Lips, starring Elisabeth Bergner...