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Silent Orator. Charley wrote first drafts* for many of Roosevelt's fireside chats. From his littered desk, speeches poured out through a hundred throats. Senators and Cabinet members provided the name and the larynx, Charley the words and the wit. The Republicans cursed him, called him "the puppet-master" and "the greatest silent orator in America...
...take at the Regal, Jackie had to pay for the rest of his company, including a twelve-piece jazz band, a puppet act, and a comic who ate cigarettes. But he still had a lot left for himself...
Died. General Constantin Sanatescu, 62, reluctant Premier of Rumania's first, pro-Allied Government after her surrender in August 1944; of cancer; in Bucharest. Co-engineer with King Michael of the coup d'état that overthrew the Fascist puppet-masters, Sanatescu fell into disfavor with the Russians after three months as premier, quit, became inspector general of the Army...
...story line is one that the movies have worn to a smudge: Maurice Chevalier instructs a youngster (François Perier) in the Art of Love. Thereupon the youngster steals the oldster's girl (Marcelle Derrien). The parody is heightened by direction that reduces action almost to a puppet-like simplicity, and by a harsh lighting that gives actors and sets the two-dimensional look of paper cutouts...
...years, the puppet King has tried doggedly to curb the Communists, but he is their virtual prisoner in his gilt & gingerbread palace at Sinaia. Any contact between sovereign and subjects is rigorously discouraged by the Communists. His own two aunts are little better than Russian agents. His Speech from the Throne last week, at the opening of Rumania's Parliament, was plainly dictated by Communist Petru Groza, the King's first minister and Rumania's real boss. "Friendship and cooperation in all fields with the U.S.S.R.," read Michael, "remain the very basis of Rumanian foreign policy. Rumania...