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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...woman? Is that what the granting of rights to women means?" Almost absently, Kassem continued: "Look at these savage acts. Do they not discredit freedom and democracy? What have you done? These pictures cause pain. Look at the poor people being dragged in the streets." Composing himself, Kassem said: "Rest assured that this will not happen again. There is force ready to destroy anyone attempting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: These Savage Acts | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...first conversation with him: instead of making her whole concluding speech at once, she says the first part, exits nearly off stage, and then, thinking he needs a bit more peace of mind, turns to deliver a kind of over-the-shoulder afterthought, "Leave all the rest [pause...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Macbeth | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...fall, and is enwheelchaired there for a few weeks, this production enjoys the services of Earle Edgerton, a veteran of dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger in a Canton shop. And he tosses in lots of amusing bits of business--with fudge, with long-holdered cigarettes, even with his own creaking joints...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Man Comes to Dinner at the Union | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...Frankie calls on his apoplectic brother (Edward G. Robinson), a rich New York merchant ("I haven't had a vacation in 24 years and I'm proud of it!"). Brother and his wife (Thelma Ritter) try to fix him up with a nice widow (Eleanor Parker). The rest of the script is farced and furious until, at picture's end, Brother stops pinching pennies, Frankie stops pinching the girl upstairs, and the whole family, including the widow, fade out, frolicking in the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 3, 1959 | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

...Five Pennies (Dena; Paramount). The basic trouble with movie biographies of famed jazz musicians is that the camera is not a horn. What matters about the average music man is the music he makes; what he does with the rest of his life is sometimes too dull for words or too rich for the censor. And since good music is seldom enough to make up for a bad story, the smart moviemaker tries to strengthen his corn section with a couple of side men. In this case, the added attractions are Danny Kaye and Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, who have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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