Word: unconvincingness
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Belle of the Nineties (Paramount). When almost overnight Mae West became an immensely profitable symbol of screen naughtiness by padding her hips and uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures...
Invitation to a Murder (by Rufus King; Ben Stein, producer). Never a Dashiell Hammett when he was writing his murder tales. Playwright King's dialog is bookish, lifeless, unconvincing. But he has a knack of conveying a sense of horror ; in one Invitation to a Murder scene a rich...
In the much-used setting of an cerie castle, isolated in an Austrian wood with an atmosphere of heavily shadowed lighting and a background of student music, the two horror merchants settle many long-standing scores concerning wars and wives. Panels slide, black cats stalk, mysterious servants silently do their...
Returning from the war with his heart and lungs crippled, Raft rejects the doctor's counsel and continues his dancing. When his new partner fails him on the opening night, Helen consents to substitute, and to dance the Bolero again. Preparing to give an encore, he suffers a heart attack...
The winners of the Hound and Horn Undergraduate Competition are both from Stanford. One is already familiar to the periodical world, J. V. Cunningham, recipient of the prize for verse. Albert Guerard, Jr., whose "Winter in Davos" merits the fiction award, has never before been published. "Winter in Davos" has...