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A man of strong (Roman Catholic) faith and often violent (anti-U.S.) prejudice, Britain's Novelist Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, let one get the better of the other in a crass commercial assessment of the prospects of his new play, a psychological mystery drama due to open...
Broadway Invasion. All three hits have brought national fame to their companies. Later this month Carmen Capalbo and Stanley Chase, the 29-year-old producers of The Threepenny Opera, will invade Broadway with the world première of Graham Greene's The Potting Shed, follow up with a...
Hero Glenn Ford is discovered in the guise of a meek and peace-loving storekeeper. Everybody in Cross Creek knows he hasn't packed a gun or tipped a glass in four years. But Glenn breaks out in a sweat whenever anybody mentions the shooting over at Silver Rapids...
Hitting a tank with a 16-in. shell from a battleship's main battery is something like potting a mouse with an elephant gun. It isn't often done-but when it is, there isn't much left of the mouse.
These days, however, De Pisis is no longer the eccentric Venetian man-about-town. Thin and aged beyond his years, he lives at a sanitarium outside Milan, for the past three years the victim of recurrent nervous disorders. He uses a cobweb-festooned greenhouse on the grounds as his studio...