Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first night of the adult education series, silver-haired Poet E. E. Cummings gazed out over the audience in the new science hall of Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. and announced that he was "terrified." He had expected about 30 people, but 600 had come. "I don't see why so many people would come to a poetry lecture unless they had to," said he. "I wouldn't." Last week, it was the turn of Poet W. H. Auden to be astonished at a poetry audience of hundreds...
They Live by Night (RKO Radio) is a sleeper, i.e., a low-budget job that surprises its makers by being a hit. It has had a delayed release in the U.S. after making a reputation for itself in England. Except for its sentimental view of crooks, it is a well-made little crime movie flavored with poetic young love...
...Only rarely, e.g., in a morning shot of Cathy purring glamorously in bed, do they act in tried and untrue Hollywood style. As usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school kids...
...except for interpolations of hindsight, Karig's history seldom rises above the work of the better on-the-spot reporters. Future historians will read this big job, done with loyalty and likable gusto, only for passing footnotes and occasional colorful quotations (one pilot's description of the night battle in Mindoro Strait: "It looked like hell upside down...
Brighton police have completed their investigation of the Friday death of Fleming S. Austin '51 and there is "no question but that the cause is suicide," Captain Edward L. Connelly said last night...