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...placed in her bedroom preserved in alcohol. He also "developed a taste for whipping young girls in their teens." Gerhardi thinks him far less responsible than history has made him for "hacking out a window into Europe"; gives evidence of his cowardice in battle, his lack of military talent...
...Advice for theatrical aspirants is pretty cheap," mused Lahr, "but there is no 'open sesame' which will produce success. A college education is by no means necessary for this success. Talent is a thing which you either have or you haven't, and that's what they pay off on. If you have it, your only problem is to find out what you can do best...
...tragedy is that many hams who think they can play Hamlet as well as Gielgud refuse to accept their ineptitude, although they might be doing something else more successfully of course, good looks alone may get you by in the movies, but never on the stage, where the talent's the thing...
Thanatopsis. When Kaufman & Connelly hit the limelight with Dulcy in 1921, it was as more than rising young playwrights. They were part of a group which, by virtue of talent, wit and hobnobbing together, was coming to dominate the sophisticated Manhattan scene. Their lunch club, the Algonquin Hotel, had waked up one morning to find itself famous, and celebrity-chasers flocked there, as to a play, to observe Kaufman. Connelly, Broun, Woollcott, Benchley, Dorothy Parker, F.P.A. & Co. at lunch, and to hear their laughter, though not what gave rise to it. The male members enhanced their glamor by forming...
...mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot to "pick up Middleton" (a BBC lecturer who talks on gardening). Satisfied that Britons have forgotten none of the talent for first-rate propaganda they developed during World War I, the Ministry of Information announced that similar films on U-boats, convoys, a great military picture about the Maginot and Siegfried lines, were on its production list...