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Temptation (Universal-International) comes about as close as the Johnston Office will permit in letting Merle Oberon get away with murder. Adapted from a musty Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
...Redmen. ¶After months of impatient waiting for the movie version of James Thurber's introspective little short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, depressed Thurber fans learned that the big Goldwyn musical starring Danny Kaye will be advertised on marquees as / Wake Up Dreaming. ¶Bella Donna (Merle Oberon and George Brent) might easily be confused (reasoned Gallup testers) with the drug which whodunit addicts know as "deadly nightshade." After considering and discarding Beautiful Lady, the film's manufacturers have settled on Temptation. ¶ Ernest Hemingway's The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber (starring...
...following price complaints have been reported since Tuesday: Liggett's frappes, up to $.25 milkshakes, up to $.20 Mike's Club frappes, up to $.20 Bella Vista Restaurant spaghetti dinner, from $1 to $1.10 (Similar increases on other items) Hazen's grilled cheese sandwich, $.15 to $.20 College Drug Store all ice cream items...
...Bella Vista was named by an optimist. The outlook from the white cubical villa, surmounted by four grotesque chimneys, is gloomy. Ancient, vine-tangled trees surround it like careless sentinels. The great cast-iron gate is rusty...
...family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire furniture against the walls...