Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although neither alternative is wholly satisfactory in view of the growing strength of the new Fascists, there is no overestimating the cost to the West of a Communist sweep at the polls. There could be no excuses for the defeat of Western Democracy by Communism in a free election after a campaign, supported by unlimited funds with extravagant promises of colonies, seaports, recovery, liberty, and order. If the West loses because it has permitted itself to be backed into a corner by failing to support a party which offers land reform, the effect will be disastrous to the position...
Miss Cornell is the biggest disappointment of the evening. She seems temperamentally unable to express the corrupting sensuality of Cleopatra, or her intrinsic failure to see life from a consistent or serious point of view. She throws away good lines, looks foolish when she tries to act silky, and frequently seems lost in the part, In her biggest dramatic scenes she turns her role from an illusion to a mass of words by forcing her voice and manner. Miss Cornell's tricks and gestures, effective in other roles, show her in this supreme part as not a great tragic actress...
What success the acting does achieve is Godfrey Tearle's. Although by no means possessed of a complete conception of the part of Antony, Tearle has great dignity and assurance and a superb voice which makes his portrayal always satisfying, at least from a poetic point of view...
...strange, unexplained announcement the Student Government offered instead there were several questions implied. From a strictly legal point of view Student Government officers were on shaky ground or no ground...
...Safe Faces. Such restrictions limit stories almost entirely to three types: 1) a wife's (or husband's, or sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...