Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aside from the treatment of its main theme, "Gentleman's Agreement" is one of the few pictures that contains an intelligent and realistic portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...
...committeemen hoped to get a peek at the Wedemeyer report, they were disappointed. The President, explained General Wedemeyer, had bound him to secrecy. But as an "ordinary observer," Fact-Finder Wedemeyer made no bones about his personal opinions...
...terriers. But last week, the heel-nipping of London's press drew blood. So did their implications that Rank's General Cinema Finance Corp. Ltd., which produces Rank's pictures, was short of cash. Reluctantly Rank opened the books of G.C.F. and gave outsiders their first peek into his movie finances...
Last week, Collector Halpert had cleared her gallery's top floor of moderns, to give Manhattanites a rare peek at her old stuff. On exhibition were 27 prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...
...Quick Peek. After the procession passed, everyone surged toward the Palace. While the crowd roared good-natured advice, five elderly gentlemen hastened to drape the royal balcony with a huge bolt of gold-trimmed cloth. The royal foursome stepped out, waving and smiling while the crowd sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" Five minutes later the King shepherded his family back in. Someone spied Queen Mary in a courtyard below. "We want Queen Mary!" the crowd shouted, but the Queen Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper...