Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he has often been classed with such cinematic originators as Griffith, Eisenstein and Chaplin, Director De Sica is a moviemaker to be taken seriously. Actually, some of his scenes do suggest Chaplin's mixture of airy charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to...
Intruder in the Dust (MGM) is a too-earnest treatment of a wildly imaginative novel. The story, derived from one of William Faulkner's most polemic works, was shot almost entirely in Faulkner's home town (Oxford, Miss., pop. 3,500), with the author acting as a sidewalk...
Wild life and religion stand out as about the only two comprehensible characteristics of Charles Waterton. Investigating the rest of him is like entering a maze that turns out to have been planned as a staggering hoax. Many (including Novelist Norman Douglas and Poet Edith Sitwell) have been lured down...
Hanoverian Rats. "The Squire," as his acquaintances always called him, was educated at Britain's famed Catholic public school, Stonyhurst College. Earlier teachers had found the boy's passion for nature study so all-absorbing that they had tried to whip it out of him. "But," said the...
Stonyhurst's sager Jesuits were more up to date in their psychology. They appointed Charles school ratcatcher-and so conquered his peculiar heart that he wore the Stonyhurst school uniform ("blue-tailed coat with gold buttons and a check waistcoat") on all special occasions until his death at the...