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...wealthy ex-Governor, liberal George Earle, would soon be appointed to a post abroad, would not say where. "Ireland," said everybody else. As a Governor's wife, Mrs. Earle (see cut) said of her husband, "His career is my whole life, but I want to stay in the background...
California's Governor Olson called on 31-year-old brassy Mr. Smith after all others had failed. Paul Smith for once kept himself in the background, negotiated quietly with able, chubby President Francis Patrick Foisie of the Dock Checkers Employers Association, then with C.I.O.'s Bridges, who by last week was looking for a face-saving way out. What Paul Smith sold both sides was the proposition that everybody go back to work, let arbitration settle the controversy. So simple was this solution that San Franciscans wondered for the umpteenth time why Messrs. Foisie and Bridges...
Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it. Last November he started work on the final canvas, for six weeks worked 16 hours a day to finish it. Priced at around $10,000 (American Gothic sold for $300 in 1930), it is first of a projected Wood series on U. S. legends...
WHAT NIGHT WILL BRING-Hilea Bailey-Crime Club ($2). An arthritic private investigator and his pretty daughter crack a case involving murders and theft of campaign ideas in a big Midwest ad agency. Some readers may be irked by the highly colored agency background, but the plot is credible, the humor pleasant, the atmosphere creepy...
...little too leisurely, perhaps, in the first half, quickens after the intermission, and Scarlett's visit to Rhett in the prison, and the Klan's revenge for the attack on her are overwhelmingly effective. The photography is often brilliant and the color is never in bad taste. The background music is well chosen. It is a movie to be discussed in superlatives, and from all indications, it will still be going strong (at 75e a seat) when our children graduate from Harvard...