Word: seductress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long been the curse of the opera stage. The first matinee was a revival, after nine years in the warehouse, of Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah. As a vehicle for Dramatic Tenor Ramon Vinay, the strong man, and Risë Stevens as a self-conscious seductress, the opera never got out of low gear. But in this case it was almost wholly the fault of Composer Saint-Saëns: his slow-moving Samson and Delilah is more often oratorio than opera...
...Hangover Square" is one of those motion pictures about which one feels particularly cheated, for its has a cast that is convincing and several highly professional moments. Cregar gives an intense portrayal as Bone; Linda Darnell, his high-kicking cafe dancer, repeats her role of the designing seductress in "Summer Storm" with surprising skill. There are some very effective touches in the photography: a long view of a Guy Fawkes Day bonfire, and what is unquestionably the film's most absorbing minute, a mouth-watering close-up of the Darnell cheescake...
...that point Darryl Zanuck breezed in, took over the studio (renamed it 20th Century-Fox), and his new broom swept Rita out. (Mr. Zanuck recently had cause to regret this haste, when he had to pay Columbia a stiff fee to borrow Rita for the role of Seductress Dona Sol in his pale epic. Blood and Sand. Rita and the bull in Technicolor walked off with Zanuck's show, leaving his own star, downy Tyrone Power, a poor third.) The Works. After a year of being jounced around in free-lance Westerns (says she: "Those are the days...
DEATH CAME DANCING- Kathleen Moore Knight-Crime Club ($2). At the Pollera Ball in Panama, Mrs. Richmond, native seductress, appears with her ancestral gold and jeweled headdress, and a minor English diplomat. When murder is done, Elisha Macomber, sage of Penberthy Island, Me., cleans up the mess...