Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jaguar (by N. Richard Nash) seethed with action, pulsed with meaning, and added up to nothing. Closing at week's end, it told a melodramatic movie yarn that-loaded down with symbolism -made a lumbering stagecoach. The yarn, laid in mountain country, concerned a crusading young schoolmaster's struggle against the local villain who tyrannized over people, gobbled up property, caged up animals. Crux of the struggle was a hunt for an unworldly youth fleeing with a $900 inheritance. As a western, Jaguar lacked life because even its gunplay suggested a morality play. As serious drama...
...snapped Dr. Gerald Gibbens in the Practitioner (London), "are expensive, difficult to wash, and are water-repellent, so that when we move with any energy at all we sweat and stay wet and itchy and smelly for the rest of the day." His remedy: "dishcloth underclothes," knitted of cotton yarn. Just as warm as wool, he says, easier to wash, softer-and cheaper...
Dial "M" is not world-shaking. Its first and last ten minutes are a little wordy and more than a little slow, and many murder yarns have displayed more striking situations or original twists or hair-raising climaxes. But few recent ones have been so consistently competent. In terms of plot twists & turns, Mr. Knott always refills the audience's glass before it is quite empty; and in view of the danger of leaving fingerprints, his touch is consistently light. He clearly realizes that the author of a successful murder yarn has to think of almost as many things...
MASSIMO CAMPIGLI, 57, a Florentine whose Byzantine-looking paintings of young girls have toured the world's art capitals, hang in many of its best museums. His round-faced girls sit rolling yarn, fixing necklaces, posing nude; each with a happy expression, a pair of bright sloe eyes and not a care in the world...
...Hobson). In time, he inveigles the countess into becoming patroness of a highly profitable thrift club he has set up. Through such bamboozling, Denry becomes wealthy, marries a beautiful young girl (Petula Clark) and gets to be the youngest mayor in Bursley's history. All in all, the yarn is a neat switch on the adage that worldly success is based on hard work and honesty...