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Died. Ben Webster, 82, longtime Shakespearean actor, onetime leading man to Ellen Terry and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, husband of veteran stage & screen Actress Dame May Whitty, father of Actress-Director Margaret Webster; in Los Angeles...
...past, three factors have been responsible for the ineffectiveness of the federal world government movement: the division among the groups advocating it, the attitude of stubborn opposition to the UN by many of those groups, and the feeling that it was an anti-Russian screen. The Asheville conference was a notable success in that it united six of the most active groups into one organization whose policy is to advocate world government through the UN while realizing the necessity of including the Soviet Union in its proposals...
This showing of the French film "Portrait of a Woman" based on a screen play by Jacques Feyder affords little satisfaction to the low intellect movie-goer. A quick disposal of plot by Mr. Feyder and the four superb characterizations of a woman by the actress Francoise Rosay provide a drama which maintains interest throughout...
...Cities; Universal-International), a rare attempt to use the screen for poetic tragedy, is the story of the last eight hours in the life of an Irish revolutionist named Johnny McQueen (James Mason). Robbing a Belfast factory for party funds, Johnny unwittingly kills a man and is himself gravely wounded. In confusion and terror, his comrades abandon him. By nightfall one of the most extensive man hunts in movie history is in full swing. So is an elaborate screen allegory...
...assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace screen...