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...Paramount) is an uneven mixture of effective thriller, bathos, and the kind of melodramatics that calls on an audience to hiss the villain. In Broadway Actor Lyle Bettger, a vain-looking blond with a built-in sneer, the movie also offers a likely candidate for the most hissable heavy since Erich von Stroheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

Though its overripe plot is unconvincing and full of coincidence, the movie delivers good performances, especially bv Actresses Cowl and Stanwyck and Villain Bettger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 15, 1950 | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...villain, a villain, a -villain; A dirty, dirty villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Durable Man | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

When Ezio Pinza moved up Broadway from the Metropolitan Opera to South Pacific last spring, many a Met-goer was left wondering who would fill his shoes as the Met's most popular and winning villain, Don Giovanni. The answer came from Vienna-and it was not the only question that stocky Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, 42, answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Don from Dresden | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...short "Seeds of Treason" is not a satisfactory history; it is rather brief for the prosecution. The authors, like many others, believe Hiss a villain, Chambers a saviour. Other reporters, other spectators believe Hiss is the hero and Chambers is the devil. It is highly unlikely that there is a member of either extremist faction emotionally suited to record the Hiss-Chambers mess in the cool, balanced way that history demands

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: The 'True Story' of Hiss | 4/14/1950 | See Source »

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