Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some hazy psychological stuff and a tangle of flashbacks hamper "The Long Night," but nevertheless the picture is a success. Henry Fonda, who shoots one of the slimiest characters seen recently on the screen, recaptures what will have to be called his "faith in humanity,' and after keeping off the police for a long night full of well-filmed memories, goes with hope to his trial...
...civil service, President Truman issued an Executive Order making possible "loyalty tests" for some two million government employees. In addition, the Civil Service Commission was ordered to create a "review board." In the action of this board, which meets for the first time tomorrow, will lie the success or failure of the President's program. Without forceful moves on the part of the board, the examinations can easily fulfill the raucous predictions of those who are already waving their manifestos and shouting "police state...
Nineteen years previously the then latest success-story in the Adams family had packed his bags on the White House lawn, inwardly hoping that Old Hickory Andy Jackson would move in through the delivery entrance. Major-General Jackson, himself, was elected to the Senate after his years in the presidency, but his fellow Tennesseans were obliged to bury him before they could install him in Washington once again...
...this exchange of two universities' acting groups is a success, we probably will make it a yearly event," predicted Jerome T. Kilty '50, HTW president, last night...
Afterward, on the sidewalk outside the theater, intellectuals milled around, furiously debating the merits and meaning of the play. Said the literary weekly Carrefour: "Remarkable. . . . Barrault has a sense of greatness, a poetic imagination." Les Nouvelles Littéraires: "A surprising and almost unhoped-for success. . . . The prodigious miming of Barrault . . . is the soul of the entire play." Only the Communist Les Lettres Françaises found it "mortally boring...