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Same Shade of Scarlett...
...19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...
...main thing was that he took no nonsense from women. In Gone With the Wind, when he snarled at Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn," he taught the talkies how to swear. And when he slapped Norma Shearer's face in A Free Soul (1931), he slapped into obsolescence the smooth and courtly Valentino school of hand-kissing elegance. "Perhaps," said Norma Shearer last week, "that was where Noel Coward got the idea for his line: 'Every woman should be hit regularly-like a gong...
Bernice the Breadwinner. After Harvard, Cozzens hibernated in Canada for a while on a publisher's handout of $15 a week, finished a mawkish Elizabethan historical romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast...
...looked by week's end as though Scarlett O'Hara had saved Tara from the carpetbaggers. When strongminded Cinemactress Vivien Leigh violated the slumberous sanctity of Britain's House of Lords (TIME, July 22) to campaign against the projected demolition of London's time-hallowed St. James's Theater, she got a well-bred bounce, but lordly mustaches fluttered in admiration. From a great commoner came stronger support; doughty Sir Winston Churchill grumped, "As a parliamentarian, I cannot approve your disorderly method," nevertheless pledged $1,400 to save the theater, which was to be replaced...