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Dore Schary's film version of his Broadway success develops Franklin Roosevelt's ordeal by polio into a superior drama that is also a superb soap opera-and one of the year's shrewder pieces of political propaganda. Ralph Bellamy and Greer Garson make wonderful theater out of Franklin and Eleanor...
...that is how long the George Haversticks and the Ralph Bateses have respectively been married. When George and his unhappy bride arrive at the home of his old war buddy Ralph, Ralph's wife has just walked out on him. Ralph, if somewhat shrewder than most men, must yet in offering the newlyweds counsel, comically seek to do unto others what exists to be done for himself. It is rather uphill work, for the still uncoupled bridal couple have tempers as well as neuroses, and the two men themselves sometimes tangle en route. Then, in Act III, Ralph...
...fact, it seemed possible that their prospective customers were shrewder than the bumbling brothers. For in the nine months the Re-Mi Gallery was open, the Lass brothers did not sell a single picture...
...Cart caused a mild furore in 1929 because Socialist Shaw put in a good word, not to say several magnificent speeches, for monarchy. Shaw's English King Magnus is far more public-spirited, high-minded and civilized than the Labor Prime Minister and, as it turns out, a shrewder tactician. Heckled for such a political about-face, Shaw insisted-in one of those prefaces of his which are more like second times at bat-that King and Prime Minister not only are not winner and loser, but are not even basic antagonists. "The conflict," Shaw asserts, "is not really...
...Touch of Frost. Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time...