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Some of the writing is awkward, and there is very little development in any of the characters except Miss Ferroni and one of the children. Not that there isn't plenty of action, and changes in the temper of the relationships, but nearly everybody seems pretty much the same at the end of the play as they were at the beginning. Turney also plays a very irritating trick on his audience by having the mother (Frances Dee, a capable actress from Hollywood) apparently, murdered at the end of Act II, only to reveal in Act III that she was just...
...public opinion, still confused, was somewhat soothed. But the week's give & take had made it all too clear that Berlin, until lately one place where Big Power relations were good, had become a focal point of international bad temper...
...most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness to industry. He is also a man who did not want the job of Labor Secretary: he took it on the urging of his old Senate crony, now the President...
Clincher. In Los Angeles, Mrs. William T. Caldwell II testified that her husband had such a temper that he had smashed several bottles of bourbon. "Full bottles?" asked the judge. Told that they were, the judge unhesitatingly said: "Divorce granted...
...Author Graves brought the teeming life of Rome in the Claudian Age so vividly alive that the books became bestsellers. In last year's not-so-successful Wife to Mr. Milton, his blend of imagination and scholarship projected his readers into 17th-Century England and the bedchamber temper tantrums of the great blind poet-politician...