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...reporting a Zanuck film, Crack in the Mirror, TIME'S critic wrote, "Justice, however, is not done in the screen credits, where Producer Zanuck, under the pseudonym, Mark Canfield, generously accepts full responsibility for the screenplay." Nor is justice done by TIME to the author of the novel, Drame dans un Miroir, on which the film is based. That...
Exactly how or where it started no one quite knows, but once it got going in the 1890s, it proved as catching as a virus. From Vienna to Chicago, new buildings shot up all curves and curlicues as though seen in a Coney Island mirror. Stairways were twisted into elaborate swirls; paintings and statues became studies in swoops. Today, the style known as Art Nouvemt seems about as "new" as Grandmother's antimacassar. But as Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art set out to prove last week, in the most comprehensive and ingeniously mounted U.S. exhibit...
...theater to discover another world, the true world of imagination, but I saw only my own bad world, coarsely admired . . . How rarely on the stage do you see people who think thoughts, who make political decisions, who are not asking merely to be loved. If the theater is a mirror of our society, then the only revolutionary act left in American life is to be a thinker...
Crack in the Mirror (20th Century-Fox) was produced by Darryl Zanuck, a great man for the special angle. As production boss of 20th Century-Fox, he made plenty of splash and cash with controversial pictures about insanity (The Snake Pit), anti-Semitism (Gentlemen's Agreement) and the color line (Pinky). Since setting up as an independent producer, he has made or sponsored films about interracial romance (Island in the Sun), impotence (The Sun Also Rises), homosexuality (Compulsion), and a man who was crazy about elephants (The Roots of Heaven). In Crack in the Mirror, a murder meller made...
...both Laro and Donahue realized that they were only the Post's caretakers until Heir Apparent Bill Hobby came of executive age. Shortly before the changeover, Laro quit the Post to join the Los Angeles Mirror-News as executive editor; last week Donahue followed, was hired as the Mirror-News's assistant managing editor. Nearly a dozen other Post staffers have indicated that they might hit the trail to California too. To reassure the staff about its new boss, young Hobby stuck this sentence into the Post's news story of the change: "Former Governor William...