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James Cagney plays the role with sensitivity and understanding. As Chaney's two wives. Dorothy Malone and Jane Greer, though plotted in severe black and white, manage to make grey-toned human beings of themselves. Most important, Lon Chaney is presented in all his frail- ties. He was a jealous, generous, obstinate, softhearted man. Seldom in Hollywood's euphemistic tributes to its own has the tribute included so many ugly realities at the expense of glamorous garnish...
...center of the stage of the ancient theater of Herodes Atticus at the foot of the Acropolis, a frail old lady stood one night last week nodding to the applause of cabinet ministers, diplomats and Athenian intellectuals. The mayor of Athens had just proclaimed Miss Edith Hamilton of Washington, D.C. an honorary citizen, and for an instant it seemed as if she might break down. Instead, Edith Hamilton, just four days short of 90, walked up to a microphone and in a firm voice declared: "I am an Athenian citizen! I am an Athenian citizen! This is the proudest moment...
Illness and World War II kept Lipatti from touring widely. He studied in Paris fled to Switzerland during the war; by the time postwar Europe began to marvel at him, he was no longer well enough to travel. Although he was short and frail, he had the massively muscled shoulders of a boxer and steel-fingered hands. "Macaroni fingers!" he said contemptuously when sometimes he failed to play with his usual precision. A perfectionist, he preferred not to play Beethoven because he felt he was not yet worthy of the music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti...
Television, which likes its plots explicit, has had little success adapting the misty works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, with their subtle concerns for class cravings, lost illusions and elusive ideals. But then, neither have the stage and cinema. In adapting Fitzgerald's frail short story Winter Dreams for last week's Playhouse go over CBS, Emmy Winner James P. Cavanagh came close to Fitzgerald's mood without sticking to Fitzgerald's theme. The play retained the tender struggle of the central characters, but juggled scenes and dialogue to capture the nuances of the separate worlds that...
...whisky into hot water bottle crossing borders of dry states or countries. Rubber will spoil taste. Never make love with pants on. Never sleep in moonlight. Known by scientists to induce madness . . . Never wear red necktie. Provide light snorts for ladies if entertaining. Effects of harder stuff on frail sex sometimes disastrous. Bathe in cold water every morning. Painful but exhilarating . . . Eat fresh fish for breakfast. Avoid kneeling in unheated stone churches. Ecclesiastical dampness causes prematurely gray hair. Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire...