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John Payne, as the novelist, just hasn't got enough screen personality to make Saxon's dominion over him seem worthwhile. The wife, Susan Hayward, registers tender anxiety throughout without much success, and Audrey Totter, as Saxon's girl friend has to cope with the sort of "I-love-him-the-brute" part which was thoroughly explored by Clara Bow a long time...
...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...
Furthermore, the Dartmouth rebuttal had touched a tender spot. One of the alumni who saw it was none other than Tribune Managing Editor "Pat" Maloney (Dartmouth '13). The Trib promptly called Ottawa to ask Griffin about that "moon is green" crack. Griffin issued a blustering denial: "The Dartmouth bull about me was just a lot of goddamn lies by some scared, chickentrack Dickey jerks who can't contradict what I wrote. They were afraid the alumni will look into what's going on at Dartmouth, so they tried like hell to get me fired...
...Gordon has twice before proved she could do. It requires both daring and discretion; the knowledge of one's boundaries is essential for its success. But most of all, the playwright needs an icon with more general appeal than Miss Gordon. She is a fine actress, very feminine and tender. She has a funny little was of running up the musical scale when she speaks, letting her voice crack, gently, half the way up. But as the great and brilliant actress who can't "go on" when her acting-mate dies, Miss Gordon is as incredible and uninteresting...
...totally efficient, totally soulless Utopia. This defense of the unreconstructed individual, who refuses to run with the mob, is a central theme in much of Huxley's writing, and it spills all over his latest novel. But where Brave New World was a neat stiletto jab into the tender hide of the reforming perfectionists, Ape and Essence, a poorer novel, is a rather crude bludgeon indiscriminately aimed at all men's thick skulls...