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Clifton Webb excels in the role of Mr. Laedecker, a gentleman who combines the virtues of Walter Winchell, Alexander Woolcott, and Tommy Manville. Miss Tierney turns in a good performance, mainly because her part calls for very few lines and many closeups. Vincent Price and Judith Anderson add to the general atmosphere and manage to get involved in the proceedings...
...grand entertainment" despite the public and the Boston critics. It is more nearly what Woolcott Gibbs labelled another recent music 1--"a beautiful bore." And to be bored in style you're asked to hand out the better part of a fivespot...
Sirs: TIME, Feb. 1, Radio section, p. 36: you quote Alexander Woollcott's last words. We have, in our file here at WCCO, electrical transcriptions of that People's Platform broadcast. Mr. Woolcott's last words, as taken from that transcription were: "Well, I mean that I think that the surrounding peoples, these physicians, ourselves, must heal themselves. I can see no suggestion that we are politically competent enough to do the job. I think time may do it." . . . R. L. ANDERSON WCCO Minneapolis
Bouncing up out of last week's doldrums, Brattle Hall present an excellent version of "The Dark Tower" with Gloria Stuart performing as the best leading lady so far this season. This breezy little play was written by Alexander Woolcott and George S. Kaufman, whose combined wits succeeded in toppling the more sedate Brattle Hallers off their moral pedestals...
...along the line, the performances are just what Woolcott would have ordered. They've got enough spice to make them tasty, and more than enough wit to make them toothsome...