Word: slights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...double-barreled, making a mystery not only of the killer but of the killed. Told in a series of flash backs narrated by snub-nosed Clifton Webb, in his first picture since 1924, it gives ample scope for a display of his suavely comical talent and puts only a slight strain on Gene Tierney's acting...
...wonders in Moscow whether Broadway has a firm grip on its laurel wreath. New York's theater still has, in my opinion, a slight edge on Moscow's-in scope, in splendor of production, in entertainment value, perhaps even in acting and in art. But at its present rate Moscow will soon be far ahead on all counts...
...there were in the '20s, but the most carefully experimental is Mossoviet. The pet theory of its director, Yuri Zavadski, is that decor usually gets in the way of actors' portrayal of what is inside the characters; his plays are characterized by uniform sets and only slight changes of properties. Vakhtangov Theater is at the opposite pole: it stresses pageantry and theatricality. Finally, the Red Army Theater has a broad base of popularity. This is, accordingly, the lightest, gayest and noisiest of Russian theaters...
Newspapermen, long familiar with the News'?, aggressive method of fighting libel threats, were inclined to agree with Bob Hannegan. But few thought that hard-headed Joe Patterson either wanted to spare his readers below-the-belt copy, or minded too much the family slight in the cartoon on Cousin "Bertie." Best guess was that astute Captain Patterson wanted no side music to distract attention from the blaring, anti-New Deal tune played daily by his accomplished trio of Editorial Writer Reuben Maury, Cartoonist C. D. Batchelor and Columnist John O'Donnell...
Died. Ramon S. (for nothing) Castillo, 71, Argentina's Conservative President from 1940 until ousted by the June 1943 revolution; after long illness; in Buenos Aires. Slight, sardonic Castillo ("The Fox") became Acting President when failing eye sight forced the late, liberal Roberto Ortiz' retirement. The Fox instituted Argentina's policy of "prudent neutrality." At his wake last week was a yard-high floral wreath inscribed: "From the Japanese Embassy...