Word: scandals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mysteriously billed as the rider, "A Scandal in Paris" is a far more satisfactory show, and, in the absence of a cartoon, is the only obstacle between the U.T. patrons and three hours of fitful slumber. Arthur Pressburg's screen adaptation of the escapades of Francois Vidoque, 19th century lover and second story man extraordinaire, does not wallow in the mire of an uncoordinated plot, hopefully punctuated with gags, but relies on well developed comedy of situation in an interesting and smoothly flowing story. Ably supported by Akim Tamiroff, handsome George Sanders filches ladies' garters and coffers of jewels between...
...Skelton, was in no hurry to tamper with the magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict libel laws. But its deadpan, detailed coverage of trials-bigamy, rape, murder, adultery-gives Britons...
What, More Millions? News of the World has now set its cap for 12,000,000 readers, though it guesses-perhaps accurately-that it already reaches all the scandal-lovers in sight. To find 5,000,000 more subscribers, it intends to add more news of politics and world affairs, fields where its coverage is now good but short. Already it has dipped a bashful toe into Conservative politics. Shy, wealthy Philip Gordon Dunn, 41, its Canadian-born chairman and a major shareholder, would probably go Tory all the way if he were not afraid of offending his Socialist readers...
...mental hygiene conferees well knew that the mental hospitals scandal was a hardy perennial; they knew the remedy: not merely better buildings, but funds for more and better-trained personnel, more mental hygiene clinics for preventive treatment...
...former ballroom of Bad Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...