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Eisenstein's Ivan (Nikolai Cherkassov) bears little resemblance to the historical figure. According to some historical ac counts, Ivan IV of Russia (1530-84) was a psychopathic sadist who slaughtered thousands of Russians, gleefully assisted at the torture of his enemies, and mur dered his own son in a blind rage. Eisen stein's Ivan is frankly intended to repre sent Stalin, who admired Ivan as the founder of the Russian state, and liked to think he was "terrible" only because he had to be. Eisenstein therefore dutifully whitewashes the brute. But the whitewash is spread so thin...
...Imbecile † Sloppy ** Sallow †† Prematurely aged * The firm eventually went into receivership. Today's Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Nestle-Le Mur Co.), though named for her, is a different business, founded...
...theme from the Bible, the talk of its old people from the folklore of Sholom Aleichem and the chat ter of its young from the Bronx locutions of Arthur Kober. Abraham is a patriarch in the classic mold-huge, fork-bearded, devout. When two of his sons are mur dered in a pogrom, he flees from the Ukraine to Canada. The tragedy briefly robs Abraham of his faith in God, turns his wife Sarah into a mindless zombie, and weighs down the frail shoulders of his remaining son, Isaac, with the necessity of making up for the loss...
Poor Joan-not even the censor can save her. But he can make it legal. Jeff, it suddenly turns out. was only paying a debt of honor when he drove the other widow to her death-and besides, the lady didn't commit suicide after all. She was mur dered by one of Jeff's jealous girl friends. "The past," sighs Joan, as she clings to him, "is buried under a lot of dead years...
...with the relish of a youngster watching his first big-league baseball game." Mary agrees with the word "relish" but not "monotonous." Says she: "I like the diversity of subjects that we handle every day-everything from automotive stories to flying saucer-men's lectures and the occasional mur der. Best of all, perhaps, I like being on the inside of the stories that make the week's news. There is very little boring detail in editorial work, and you feel that everything you do is important...