Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alternately nagging and praising daily bulletins that Christiansen puts his mark on the Ex-Press. Excerpts: "Such a coverage! Such splendour! Such magnificence! From Newell Rogers in Washington to Ralph Campion in Cock Fosters the heart of this paper beats strongly. . . . [But] it hurts when we miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays?' The phrase is absurd and should...
Meanwhile, back in St. Pierre, dejected Miss Reed has decided to become a nun. Sister Lana & husband get home just in time for a big, tasteless church scene in which Donna takes her vows as Lana makes calf's eyes at Donna's onetime man. The moral of all this seems to be: if you want to be happy, be sure to marry someone you don't love...
...long trip from Miss Williams' California swimming pool to the bone dry stage of the Loews Orpheum Theatre, and she made the trek just to be kissed. Previously she had been bussed 'by a downy-cheeked youth from Tufts, and even as Guidera was leaving, a somewhat abashed lad in a B.U. emblazoned sweater was espied wandering about in the lobby of Mr. Goldwyn's entertainment emporium...
...benefit of posterity, the scene is reproduced with stenographic accuracy. Miss Williams speaks first...
...this is made easier by Mr. DeMille's ability to make shot after shot bulge with energy. A suggestion about a white-skinned female slave-an angle that first inspired DeMille to make the picture-is played with vigorous naiveté for not-quite-censorable leers and laughs. Miss Goddard, stripped down within an inch of the Johnston Office, is tethered for torture by the Indians and writhes exquisitely. She also takes the bath which has for many years been virtually a DeMille signature. It cannot compare with Claudette Colbert's champion dip, as Poppaea (The Sign...