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...first. Winchell pledged, will come a crusade to "expose" the ratings that he used to quote endlessly when they were in his favor during his successful years as a radio tattler. Said he: "I have written to Senators and Representatives to call attention to the rating system, which devastates and puts performers out of work...
...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
...little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch the bay of distant hounds...
...people caught in this grade B triangle gives it the look of pathos. He softens contempt for the villain by proving him to be as much an unhappy fool as he is a rascal. When the hero's sister writes a tattling letter, Gilliat balances the tattler's meanness with a compassionate picture of her miserable marriage. Besides endowing his work with warmth and humanity, Director Gilliat knows how to make it move; the hero's hunt through London for his wife is a series of hairbreadth misses, played at the galloping pace of a horse opera...
Canada (and the U.S. and Britain) had learned about the plot months ago, presumably from some tattler involved in it. The Mounties had not moved immediately, for several reasons. For one thing, evidence had to be complete. Furthermore, delay enlarged the catch. Most important, perhaps, were diplomatic considerations that smelled strongly of appeasement: premature disclosure of the plot might have meant a rupture with the Soviet Union just as UNO was gathering for its first meeting...