Word: patheticism
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TRIALS The Obsessed The minute details of dying filled the notebooks of the court stenographers. In Manchester, N.H., in the county court, there was no argument over whether "mercy" killing was or was not justified; the moral issue of euthanasia had been taken out of the case. The argument last...
Died. Sidney Arthur ("Sid") Field, 45, bulb-nosed British comic who soared to fame in wartime revues (Strike a New Note, Strike It Again); in Richmond, Surrey. Disdaining the fast gag, Field mixed the pathetic and the preposterous into an art reminiscent of Chaplin's, but with a slapdash...
Provost Buck was introduced, and in turn introduced Mrs. Roosevelt. As the began to speak the audience grew silent. Those in the rear leaned forward to hear every world. All was quiet except for the gentle rising and falling of her voice. Then came a tapping. It repeated. And another...
Burgess Meredith, who is responsible for the fine direction of the film, plays Heurtin, the accused innocent. As a myopic knife-grinder who is hopelessly implicated in the murder by circumstantial evidence, Meredith deftly characterizes a pathetic little man who complicates Maigret's plans by his desperate search for revenge...
Overwhelming popular demand has held over that paragon of western movies, Howard Hughes' "The Ontlaw," at the RKO Boston for a third record breaking week. But even three years of forced exile from the Boston area has not dimmed the lasting qualities of this momentous film. It is still the...