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...list of roving reporters who have recently reported biographically,* last fortnight was added the European news manager of United Press. In the 332 painstaking pages of / Found No Peace,† United Pressman Webb Miller describes the troubles he has seen in his 24 years of journalism, affirms that like his boss, Roy Wilson Howard, he fears the world is in for plenty more unpleasantness...
...being reviewed in your issue of Oct. 26, fairly favorably. It's one of the poorest shows ever to grace, or disgrace, our local stage. It was one of the slowest moving shows ever to open here and if it weren't for Clifton Webb, who is the show, it probably wouldn't have opened...
...Chick Webb, A new colored swing sensation...
...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...
...Stars Remain Actor Webb, with infinite boredom, takes part in a great deal of vague talk about a hypothetical New York State political situation, in which the forces of Cynthia Hope's (Helen Gahagan's) grandfather, a die-hard Republican out to smash a pack of radical cubs at the polls, are lined up against the faction of Frederick Holden (Ben Smith), who thinks grandfather and his allies are sociological contemporaries of the brontosaurus. A lazy neutral, Actor Webb twits grandfather's associates by inquiring if they think it quite sanitary, not to change their convictions more...