Word: indiscreetness
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...advocated by Senator Melvin Gassaway Ashton in Hollywood's The Senator Was Indiscreet. Ashton's other campaign promises: a $5,000 bonus for everyone who did not serve in the war, refund of all income taxes, with interest...
...Editor Donald M. Wallace wrote to one of them, "should listen to all prominent politicians and attach himself to none; he should always be in the orchestra stalls, but never jump on the stage." Some could not resist jumping. In 1899, the Paris correspondent reported Queen Victoria's indiscreet telegram to her embassy, expressing horror at the verdict against Alfred Dreyfus. The exclusive story would have created an international sensation, but the dispatch was killed. "It was not for the Times," says the history, "to indulge in such triumphs...
...seeing "The Senator Was Indiscreet," it is almost impossible to avoid making a comparison with another political satire that appeared in another election year, "Of Thee I Sing." Some of the same people are involved, too, but neither scriptwriter Charles MacArthur nor director George S. Kaufman has been able to inject spontaneity or hearty comedy into the new movie, which is a meager effort in a field loaded with opportunities for spoofing...
Impish Charles MacArthur had done famously as a police reporter for McCormick and Hearst, playwright (The Front Page), screenwriter (The Senator Was Indiscreet) and husband (to Helen Hayes...
...critics called Deborah Kerr the year's best actress-for her work in Britain's The Adventuress and Black Narcissus (no mention was made of Miss Kerr in MGM's The Hucksters). William Powell was called best actor for Life with Father and The Senator Was Indiscreet. The National Board of Review picked Britain's Michael Redgrave for his playing of Orin in Dudley Nichols' Hollywood-made production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra; and Britain's Celia Johnson (who got the prize last year from Manhattan critics) for This...