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...protracted Sunday-supplement feature story. The First Billion casts the late James Stillman for the No. 1 role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles E. Mitchell in minor parts. Though Biographer Winkler cannot make Banker Stillman out a double-dyed, red-handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once...
...nasty indictment-but who was the villain? There was much loose talk of a wicked Whiskey Trust, but none of the indignant publicists would give its name or address...
...warfare continues against an unwholesome Paris gallery of reporters, U. S. dress buyers, tennis champions, and one superb banjo-playing Southerner. In a final scene Keating and Williams disguise the fact that they are glad to be together again by burlesquing an old-fashioned cinema situation. Keating as the villain pretends to usher her into his mountain hunting lodge, offer her a drink. Williams as the innocent young girl pretends to go behind a screen, take off her wet clothes, put on her dressing gown. She enacts a mock defense of her chastity until Keating embraces her in a final...
...play concerns an actress (Margalo Gillmore) who is revisited by her deplorable husband, Stanley Vance (Ernest Milton), a homosexual masochist and the most despicable villain who has set foot on the stage since Simon Legree. Returning from a long disappearance, Vance begins to exert his baleful influence over Miss Gillmore, a spell from which she had just recovered. He makes her tie his shoes, hustle for his breakfast, breaks her spirit. Both her brother (kinetic Basil Sydney) and her manager who loves her (William Harrigan) have good reason to kill Vance. But the job is finally done very adroitly...
...this book is no brief for or against Zionism, the Arabs or the British mandate. Author Zweig, a Jew, writes not as a Zionist or an Agudist. His chief characters are of different races, different creeds. A good novelist, he never takes sides, and there is no villain in the book. Scene of De Vriendt Goes Home is narrower than The Case of Sergeant Grischa's, but its theme is as wide: tolerance...