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...raid on a dingy brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught), and an unflagging succession of orgiastic parties at which the tobacco scions and their bibulous set try to drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp, crackling and gamy. The total effect is like watching laboratory rats whirl around more & more madly in a botr tie exhausted of everything but oxygen. The prose paces the pathology...
...organized these wretched bands into an effective organization, sharing with them their raw, uncomfortable, dangerous life and breathless escapes, leading them on hazardous sabotage expeditions until, by the time of liberation, they had inflicted formidable damage on the Germans, and how in the process he himself became a leader and cunning man of action, is the substance of Captain Millar's remarkable first-hand report. Millar's role is stated but never strutted. His account is studded with more obviously fascinating figures-like Paincheau, the French leader who organized his maquis on big U.S. racketeering lines, with fleets...
...series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady and the other on the time clock...
...Real Race. For scientists and laymen alike, this week's historic blast was the first indication of the progress made in the greatest and most-secret research race of the war. Except for a few breathless tales of mysterious walled laboratories and factories whose workers were interned for the duration, scarcely a word leaked...
Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, had a breathless "exclusive" splashed all over Page 1 of the Los Angeles Times: Cinemadolescent Bonita Granville was engaged to a G.I. Next day Hedda had to take it all back: "Well, I've sure been had. ... It never occurred to me the caller wasn't Bonita. The girl who imitated her voice did a magnificent...