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This week, in a bedside manner familiar to many an ailing big business, Expert Bernays was ready to tell the patient all. "If the rate of decline continues," he warned at the outset, "in a decade or two we may expect to see the legitimate theater in New York disappear completely . . . [But] in spite of everything, the American people like the theater more than ever before, if it meets their desires and needs...
Most of the credit, probably goes to director William Wellman, for the co-ordination of all the effects that went towards making the sombre atmosphere of guilty killing was letter perfect: The unshaven faces, the drabness of the set at the picture's outset, and the reflection in each character's attitude of the weakness that found such ready companionship in the lynching mob. The music, too, served its purpose--not perhaps so well as in such a western as "Duel in the Sun"--but the dull repitition of a prairie tune dampened any tendencies toward melodrama...
That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...
...Months of negotiation finally produced the North Atlantic Treaty, a defensive alliance which at the outset would include the U.S., Great Britain, and all but one of these...
...Western delegates believed that Russia was pursuing the tactic of a maximum, impossible demand at the outset. Vishinsky wanted: 1) re-establishment of a four-power Control Council to exercise "supreme power" in Germany; 2) re-establishment of the Inter-Allied Kommandatura in Berlin; 3) creation of an "All-German State Council"; and 4) reestablishment of the All-Berlin Magistrat...