Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something about his cell mate's tale clicked in José's memory, and he brooded over it. He asked Abdias to repeat the dates and places. A fortnight ago, as the two men basked in the prison courtyard sun, José blurted out: "Abdias, do you still hate the man who clubbed you?" Abdias replied philosophically: "No, those are the risks of our trade." With a sigh José unburdened himself: "Abdias, my friend, forgive me. I was on the other end of that club. You are supposed to be dead, and I am serving time...
...Gwen Verdon (TIME, June 13), one of the most accomplished hip-flippers in the song-and-dance business; a play by Eugene O'Neill; a dramatic role filled by Maureen Stapleton, one of Broadway's more gifted emoters; a new version of Kitty Foyle, that nostalgic, bittersweet tale of the between-wars world; and a dramatization of a true adventure from the life of former French Premier Pierre Mendès-France. But after going through the TV meat grinder, none of these promising offerings was up to expectations...
...Neill play, The Straw, a youthful (1918), three-act romantic tragedy, was presented on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.). It would have been difficult to pick an O'Neill drama that had a better chance of not coming off. It is the unhappy tale of a consumptive Irish girl, who falls in love with a writer at a sanitarium and wastes away when the writer is cured and leaves. The writer returns, and out of compassion gives her one straw of hope for life: the promise of his love. Although O'Neill...
...hurried order to British headquarters in Duisburg to exhume the dead sergeant's body. At this point another figure appeared on the scene: Sergeant Emmett-Dunne's half-brother Ronald, onetime private at Duisburg. Quaking with fear, brother Ronald turned up at police headquarters with a tale of hanky-panky in the darkness that led to the prompt arrest of Sergeant Emmett-Dunne...
...highly colored, overwhimsical film version suffers because Director Michael Curtiz seems unable to decide whether he is reading from a fairy tale or a police blotter. Sometimes the archness is laid on with a trowel, sometimes the trifling action stops dead for overdetailed explanations. Bogart plays his role pretty straight; Aldo Ray is disconcertingly elfin for an alleged sex fiend; and Ustinov's mugging seems overdone. Basil Rathbone and John Baer wander onscreen long enough to look properly villainous. Joan Bennett and Gloria Talbott add their pretty confusions to the artificial turmoil. Technicolor gives the picture a fairly handsome...