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Actress Joyce Mathews, whose first husband was a son of Venezuela's late Dictator Juan Vicente ("Tyrant of the Andes") Gómez, said she was now going to divorce Comedian Milton Berle. She added sweetly that he was "a swell person and a great artist" anyway...
...makes his way in the "game" with a front compounded of sincere ties and a fetching spiel. You will find it not at all difficult to share his disgust on realizing that his life, and the programs the country listens to, are shaped by the whims of a tyrant-sponsor. This churl is delineated expertly, if a touch too silkily, by Sidney Greenstreet. And Adolph Menjou's sodden-drunk recital of the way he got ahead by giving a friend and associate the shaft, is strong, frightening acting. In fact, for a movie presumably depending on the title...
...chiffoned women of one of the oldest, handsomest and rottenest aristocracies in Europe munched Europe's creamiest cream puffs. At Ro-sati's, they sipped their Martinis under the blind eyes of an ominous, seven-foot statue of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first Emperor-tyrant. And only five miles away, in an almost perfect circle, stretched the filthy, swarming manheaps of the Roman slums. The worst of them was nicknamed "Shanghai"-which to Italians is a synonym for total degeneracy. Here 15,000 Romans lived in one-room shacks; watermarks on the walls, above bed level, told...
...people put forward a representative to stand up for their cause -a representative they make into a great man. And he is the root from which tyranny always comes. . . . How does he turn into a tyrant? . . . The tyrant's great and famous step [is] the request for a bodyguard to keep the representative of the people safe for them...
...people grant it-being afraid for him and not for themselves . . . and once he has this bodyguard, this champion of the people clears out his rivals and stands up-a perfect and finished tyrant-no longer the representative of the people but their absolute master...