Word: restraint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the exception of Frank Morgan and Stepin Fetchit, the supporting cast is mediocre. Given a difficult role as Shirley's light-fingered grandfather, Morgan plays with excellent restraint...
Fredric March plays the moody, restive adventurer with admirable restraint and vigor, and Olivia de Havilland gives a vivid likeness of the passionate and equally vacillatory heroine. The ponderous weight of the thing is distinctly felt at the occasional points where Anthony becomes a prosaic globe trotter, but his genius for running into adversity usually lends the needed romance...
This holding fire is not cowardice or even restraint, for the play is not nearly so interested in ideas as in its people. Reddish remarks pass current, but they develop the characters, not the characters them. Bishop Holden, champion of the old order, although a little sententious, is not made to look ridiculous; Martin Paterson, champion of the new, is as non-chalant as that genial Communist, Earl Browder, and gladly abandons his lectures...
...tightest little monopolies in the U. S. is Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows, Inc. It has even been sued, by Zack Miller's 101 Ranch when THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH grabbed off Tom Mix, for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Last week the Circus was again involved with the law, not for conspiracy in restraint of trade, but for conspiracy "against the peace and dignity of the U. S." in the form of income tax frauds. What was more, the U. S. charged, the frauds had been carried out with a showmanship which would have done credit...
...Carter functions simultaneously as an advertisement for Philco Radio and as a contentious, outspoken editorial voice. Last spring Commentator Carter joined the popular hue & cry against New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman on the Hauptmann case, flayed that official in his broadcasts with a startling lack of restraint. Last week Commentator Carter had his first serious editorial kickback when Governor Hoffman filed in New Jersey Supreme Court a $100,000 libel suit against Carter, Philco Radio & Television Corp.; Philadelphia's Station WCAU, where the Carter broadcasts originate; Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. Inc., Atlantic Broadcasting Corp. and Columbia...