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...diversified world-in-little of a Grand Hotel. There is not enough significant interplay; characters constantly mingle but seldom merge. There is rather the sort of populous, externally shared living that is the basis of social comedy. And the play offers effective social comedy through such types as a tart matriarch or a hen-brained gadder, or through the assorted disturbances caused by the returning beau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 19, 1951 | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...About Eve. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on-Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders (TiME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Mar. 5, 1951 | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

...President's health and spirits had become almost international. London's grave Economist thought that Mr. Truman had been acting like "a fox terrier at bay, rather than a President guiding his nation through a crisis." Washington was shaking its head over Truman's latest tart remarks-directed this time against ex-President Hoover, whom he had invited to join in the appeal for grain for India. As he was leaving, Hoover told Truman: "I'm going to make a radio speech and criticize your foreign policy again." Snapped Truman: "You go ahead and say whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Time for a Rest | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Feb. 26, 1951 | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

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