Word: howe
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Joseph Valentine (Guiseppe Valentino), who calls himself a "dago wop," has followed Deanna Durbin's cinema growth from a pup. Most great reputations in the business are built on subdued arty effects -the specialties of Toland, Gaudio and chunky Chinese James Wong Howe-but Valentine has won his colors with gaiety. The lilt he catches in the gait of Deanna Durbin swinging along, singing a song, is the difference between making a musical bright and fluffy or allowing it to settle like cold soufflé. Dark, athletic, with a Cupid's-bow mustache, Valentine is a leader...
...Uncensored is an isolationist weekly newsletter of which Quincy Howe is a sponsor; he classes it among propaganda letters that "peddle dope to addicts."Advises Radio Commentator Howe: "If you don't like radio commentators, pass them up. You will not be missing much...
...Among magazines, TIME, LIFE and FORTUNE are"too vital"to be"analyzed." Nevertheless Howe gives a short chapter to them, larded with numerous gossip-begotten errors of detail but closer to the truth than most accounts. Astonishing remark: that because Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Luce were in the Low Countries in the spring of 1940, "the editorial policy of TIME promptly underwent a sea change...
...Another Howe bloomer: he recommends newspaper financial writers because they "simply cannot afford to engage in wishful thinking...
...Other Howe maxims: Inside and confidential stuff is usually false; propaganda should be recognized rather than resisted; "Don't be too concerned . . . about 'the interests.' The chief interest of most newspaper publishers is to sell papers...