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...Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep Mrs. Sykes, with its verbal claws and vivid theater, is very often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Apr. 2, 1945 | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Most prone to believe rumors were mechanics, clerks, salesmen, housewives, oldsters, fault finders, people who objected to rationing, anti-New Dealers. People who had relatives or close friends in combat overseas took less stock in rumors than those making smaller sacrifices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Who Believes Rumors? | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...camera in many spots has captured the flat, faded look of old daguerreotypes to give this period melodrama authentic flavor. The plot, based on a novel by Margaret Carpenter, and actually a direct steal from "Angel Street" ("Gaslight"), is, by its asked repetition, the picture's most salient fault...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/16/1945 | See Source »

...active Mr. Grew, through no particular fault of his own, also had a most unhappy time. The details of his misery were buried behind the "off the record" secrecy of press conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CHANCELLERIES: Secrets of State | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Town (book and lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Leonard Bernstein; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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