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...director Peter Temple revealed that Barbara Laughton, Miss Massachusetts of 1948, will portray Helen of Troy in the Shakespearian comedy...
...pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...
...official are at present searching for a "classic beauty" to portray Helen of Troy. Some thirty other speaking roles will be doled out at the casting sessions next Wednesday and Thursday. Rehearsal will begin a week from Monday...
...Mexico's revolutionary art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros), David thought painting should "contribute forcefully to the education of the public." The French Revolution and its aftermath gave him a chance to paint propaganda pictures for a vast new public, and a brand-new set of heroes and martyrs to portray. David sat in the National Convention, voted for Louis XVI's death, and eventually went into exile because of it, but not until he had tasted glory with Napoleon. Marat, Robespierre and Napoleon might seem a mixed and dubious cast to admire; to David they were all great...
...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...