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...heard the last of Nye. He was free now, and eager to thump his tub at mill gates, dockyards, and pit heads, trying to woo the workers from their leaders. "Bevan may be dead" said one Laborite,"but he won't lie down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Genius in the Gutter | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...another, until, of course, the Scots crew gets the last laugh. Actor Douglas does astonishingly well to hold his own in such fast comic company. Alex Mackenzie, an actor who taught school in Clydebank until he was 61, is a grizzled old Scots beauty, and he can "throw a tub to a whale" (the Scottish phrase, aptly enough, for sharp practice) like few men since Sir Harry Lauder. Hubert Gregg makes a sopping good Milquetoast as Douglas' male secretary, who is haplessly stationed aboard the Maggie to see that the boss's orders are carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 13, 1954 | 9/13/1954 | See Source »

About Mrs. Leslie (Paramount). Shirley Booth, with her gilded Oscar (Best Actress of 1952, for her work in Come Back, Little Sheba) scarce beginning to peel, has already laid aside her dignity and gone for a summer's dunk in a tub of sentimental lather. For this film, based on a Vina Delmar novel, is pure soap opera, and it is the kind of suds that leaves a sticky ring around the mind. Shirley plays a part that is wallowingly reminiscent of John's Other Wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

Next to Godliness ... In Columbus, Ohio, Carpet-Layer William Wolfe complained to police that the burglar who ransacked his house also took a bath, left a ring around the tub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1954 | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Mireille is left to soak in the tub for 48 hours, then driven to a Paris suburb and dumped into a pond. A bit later, when Ravinel returns to discover his wife's "suicide." her body has disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Triangle | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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