Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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(J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International), bringing Oscar Wilde's classic 1895 comedy of manners to the screen for the first time, is a highly stylized, dryly amusing production. The British-made film is faithful to Wilde's play, which is a triumph of triviality: Playboy Jack Worthing (Michael...
Elizabeth Bentley, testifying before the Un-American Activities Committee in 1948, brought up the name of Virginius Frank Coe. She remembered him vaguely as an important Treasury official, one of the underground Communists in the Federal Government who passed on information to the Soviet spy ring for which she had...
The man on the Jerusalem bus would have had no objection to the two little girls in front of him, except for the fact that they were wearing their blue-and-white school uniforms. That meant that they were students at the Catholic École de Secours de Saint Joseph...
Queen Victoria called it a "mad, wicked folly," and was not amused. But male observers, then and later, have been both amused and convinced. The latest, Oliver Jensen, lets the camera make his sharpest comment for him. His picture history, The Revolt of American Women, chronicles more than half a...
During the war, Bethlehem built Wire Rope into one of the largest manufacturing plants of its kind in the world, with an estimated worth of $50 million. But the more prosperous Wire Rope grew, the more unhappy former stockholders became In 1946, they filed suit to have the 1937 sale...