Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suspect (Universal) is the morally reprehensible tale of a pudgy little husband who 1) begs a divorce from his unendurable wife, 2) failing to get it, murders her, 3) marries and lives happily with the girl he loves. What is more, the man is presented so sympathetically that when at last, thanks to the guile of a police inspector and his own tortured conscience, he complies with the codes of society and cinema and returns to face the music, the average cinemaddict will feel very sorry indeed...
...Said he: "The noösphere is a new geological phenomenon on our planet. In it for the first time man becomes a large-scale geological force.... Wider and wider creative possibilities open before him. It may be that the generation of our grandchildren will approach their blossoming. . . . Fairy-tale dreams appear possible in the future; man is striving to emerge beyond the boundaries of his planet into cosmic space. And he probably will...
...Victor Payne-Jennings) reversed U.S. theatrical custom in two ways: the novel was made into a play after it had been made into a movie, and went to Broadway after it had toured the country. Unfortunately, its reverses do not stop there. On the stage, the well-known tale of the haunting influence of Maxim de Winter's dead first wife on himself (Bramwell Fletcher), his new bride (Diana Barrymore), his grim housekeeper (Florence Reed) and his great oppressive house casts only a faint and fitful spell. The long, dusky, atmospheric tunnel through which, as book and movie, Rebecca...
...have as one of its main characters a girl, a secretary it seems, who from her exploits reminds us of another secretary, "Bev the Beaver," likewise well-known in local circles for her exploits. Jim promises two shows a night in B-14 until all have heard the full tale...
...Bell for Adano. Eloquent tale of an A.M.G. officer who makes democracy work in a Sicilian town (TIME...