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Hope tries hard to pep things up by wearing a negligee, insulting old women, hiding in a bait box full of anchovies, etc., but it's no use: the hoary farcicle smothers his brand of fast, wisecracking humor. For his truth-telling pains, he wins the $10,000 and...
One night after Bigger has driven the girl home from a party, he helps her stagger to her room. She drunkenly insists on his staying there a while. The girl's blind mother enters and, in desperately trying to prevent the girl from giving his presence away, Bigger accidentally...
The Daily News observed that after Correspondents Frank Smothers and Richard Mowrer got their walking papers it "made one final effort to cover Italy by assigning to Rome one of its most experienced and tactful correspondents. . . . Whitaker had won the friendship of Count Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law...
Many a painter of the U. S. scene smothers the characteristic flavor of U. S. types, objects and situations in a technical gravy that has little to do with the U. S. Painters like Grant Wood use a clear sauce distilled from 14th-Century Italian primitives. Painters like Thomas Benton...
"Of Mice and Men" is the kind of play which makes erstwhile adamant lovers of realism break ground and run for the affectionate softnesses of rosy romanticism. Some have termed it "a poetic idyll," some "stark" or "tragic" or "harrowing" or have used infinite combinations of all these terms. Whatever...