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...classed with such cinematic originators as Griffith, Eisenstein and Chaplin, Director De Sica is a moviemaker to be taken seriously. Actually, some of his scenes do suggest Chaplin's mixture of airy charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to be merely a clever craftsman with a great facility for squirting clear drops of sentiment into every shadow, gesture and cobblestone. The Bicycle Thief pictures the seamy side of life with no more reality than the average Hollywood movie shows the shiny side...
From war's end to now Taylor has been back on the domestic scene, writing the story of U.S. politics, labor-management problems, the economy. A few of his other cover subjects : John L. Lewis, Tom Dewey, Robert Taft, Dean Acheson, Eugene Dennis, Richard Mellon. A fine craftsman and a thoroughly professional journalist, he has a special talent for sizing up his man in his lead paragraph. His cover story on former Speaker of the House Joe Martin (TIME, Nov. 18, 1946) began: "About all that little Joe ever did was brush the flies off the horses...
Last week, for The Cocktail Party, his new blank-verse comedy, Playwright Eliot appeared in a new role: the harried craftsman who jots notes in the balcony while the actor runs through the dress rehearsal. For four weeks in Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum Theater, Eliot had watched rehearsals, chatted with the actors over gin an water, and penciled his unpublished script with cuts and corrections...
...Craftsman. In Columbus, Ohio, Kenneth L. Scott, after admitting that he broke into eleven safes, assured police: "I'm the third best safecracker in the country, and I'm. not sure the other two are better...
Theodore Pitman, himself a gifted craftsman demands accuracy in all the Studio's work--even down to the exact proportions of the trees and figures in the Yard. He confesses that he doesn't know how any of his assistants have the patience to fix the leaves on trees or to paint in windows on the buildings, for he personally prefers working on the interesting general problems in modeling rather than on the meticulous details. Yet it is the combination of Pitman's modeling genius and the fine precision work of his assistants that have gained the Pitman Studio...