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Chicherin called me in and protested that Colonel McCormick "addresses me as an equal power-I cannot accept ultimatums from him." I was expelled from Russia immediately. Spewack, Francis McCullough of the Herald and Percy Noel of the Philadelphia Ledger, were expelled or left the same week...
...allowed in Soviet Russia), Floyd Gibbons, head of the Tribune foreign-news service, went to Moscow. He scooped the world on the Russian famine. Within a few weeks he assigned me as permanent Tribune correspondent in Moscow. I stayed in Russia about a year and a half. Sam Spewack of the New York World, two others and myself smuggled out news through the American Relief diplomatic pouch. We were caught when the Soviets broke the treaty and opened the mailbags. At this time Colonel McCormick sent his famous "ultimatum" to the Soviet government; addressed to Foreign Affairs Minister Chicherin...
Brass Bite. Prawy began by putting Sam and Bella Spewack's slangy, sprightly spoof of Shakespeare and show business into sprightly, slangy German. Then, to give the Cole Porter score bite, he put an edge on the staid Volksoper orchestra in the form of a dozen Viennese axmen, most of whom cut up in brass. To keep the musicians jumping, he imported Conductor Julius Rudel of Manhattan's City Opera Co. He also imported his key principals from the U.S.: handsome Brenda Lewis of the Metropolitan Opera (Kate), and two relative unknowns, both Negroes, Olive Moorefield (Bianca...
...Angels (Paramount) began life three years ago as a modest French farce by Albert Husson; adapted by Playwrights Sam and Bella Spewack, it became a hit on Broadway, and is still running in London and Australia. Now the fable about three Devil's Island convicts who put their illegal talents to work for an inept but honest businessman turns up in VistaVision, starring Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray and Peter Ustinov...
Festival (by Sam and Bella Spewack) takes place in the rococo sunroom of a music impresario. Phones blare, tempers explode, rival artists snarl and spit. Then a lady music teacher arrives with a child prodigy to make things really hum. Soon she is rumored to be a famous pianist's discarded mistress and the prodigy their illegitimate son. With the child's real father suspecting his wife, and a lady cellist buzzing with sex. it all suggests a game of musical sofas...