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Bray, George August, Jr. of 706 Ash Street, Winnetka; New Trier High, Winnetka. Calhamer, Allan Brian of 518 North Spring Street, La Grange; Lyons Township High. Emerson, Kenneth of 806 West Main Street, Urbans: Urbana High. Finch, Frank Hershel, Jr. of 504 West Michigan Avenue, Urbana: University High, Urbana...
...ditches her job with a broken-down carnival and meets up romantically with Deputy Sheriff Zachary Scott. Next she gets a respectable job as a local waitress. Before she ends up in the town's biggest mansion, as the wife of the state's biggest politico (David Brian), she has to take a series of plot hurdles and heartbreaks. Biggest hurdle of all is Scott's vicious, milk-drinking boss (Sydney Greenstreet...
Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
...drinking Lawyer Malone (Brian Donlevy) wriggles into trouble and out again with monotonous regularity. For a while, he divides his time between a nightclub crooner (Dorothy Lamour) and a rich, fusty old client (Marjorie Rambeau). Then the crooner is convicted of murdering her boss. When she is supposedly executed (but actually spared by the governor), Donlevy gets a chance to put all his troubles under one roof: he moves beautiful Miss Lamour into the house with the old lady...
That sort of thing was not what O'Brian was after. He does not think that his schools should destroy the island way of life. "Truk doesn't need democracy," says he. "It needs to feed itself, and it needs English to keep from getting fleeced if U.S. protection should end." O'Brian hopes Truk won't change too much. "It's wonderful. If I can, I'm going back there to live...