Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week you published an article about how a New York newspaper woman [Rachel McDowell of the New York Times] knelt at the feet of the Pope and kissed his ring [TIME, Sept. 23]. She touched the Pope's hand, let the touch linger, and said she wished she would never have to wash her hand again (ugh!) And she had hysterics! And boasted about it all! You say she is a Presbyterian. I wonder what other Presbyterians think of that. She looks like a good Christian woman, too, that is how insidious the Papists are, worming their crafty...
...Touch of Brimstone (by Leonora Kaghan & Anita Philips; John Golden producer) is a genuine three-dimensional portrait of a complete, ruthless egotist. Mark Faber (Roland Young) got into show business simply to make a fortune. To him the theatre is just one more racket he can beat. In the course of beating it he reduces his office staff to hysteria, seduces his virginal leading lady, cuckolds his deserving brother-in-law, demoralizes his amiable wife (Mary Philips). Faber manages to commit all this emotional mayhem with unbounded arrogance, callousness and a certain amount of charm which is conveyed by witty...
Notable for being the first play to take advantage of New York State's new law permitting legitimate performances on Sunday, A Touch of Brimstone seems somehow irrelevant and dated, a clever theatrical pastiche which may very well be transformed into an acceptable cineman...
WHEN NBC wants a professorial touch to its programs, John B. Kennedy becomes the narrator. John B. Kennedy has the positive and sure voice of dignity. He thought so when he was a student at St. Louis University before the Great War. His great opportunity to show it came when he was scheduled to appear on a platform in the college quad with two other students. They were going to tell just why they thought Woodrow Wilson, Teddy Roosevelt, and Howard Taft should be the next president. In this exercise in civics, John B. was to speak in behalf...
...good NBC show, Tom Riley may be the man whose pencil and quiet word gave the script its magic touch. If the base fiddler didn't arrive for the broadcast, that may have been Tom Riley you heard, taking it. He's one of many well-paid but unsung NBC producers...