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Christmas Under Fire (Warner Bros.) is also propaganda, like Hydro is notable for reason and restraint. Produced by Britain's General Post Office film unit, Christmas Under Fire tells how Britons celebrated their second war Christmas-with bits of holly tied to barbed-wire fences, tinsel hung on gun emplacements, in basement shelters under their smoking towns. Reminiscent of the blasted countryside and ruined cities in H. G. Wells's Things to Come is the bleak, dark, stormy landscape of Christmas Under Fire. But inside are the same cheerful Britishers Quentm Reynolds, Collier's London correspondent, provides...
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Lady with Red Hair (Warner Bros.) is the late Mrs. Leslie Carter, darling of U. S. theatre audiences during the gargoyled era at the turn of the Century. Revived for screen biography by yellow-haired Miriam Hopkins, she appears for cinemaudiences as a talentless, whining, ungrateful Trilby to mop-headed, cleric-collared Producer David Belasco's (Claude Rains) Svengali...
Whether Mrs. Carter was a great actress or a notorious curiosity is still a moot point among theatrical greybeards. Warner Bros., rather than classifying Mrs. Carter, merely add another volume to the screen's countless observations on show business. Out of a welter of stock theatrical characters, only Rains's David Belasco and a blustering boardinghouse keeper played by Helen Westley emerge entertainingly. Claude Rains draws a penetrating bead on the egotistical Broadway impresario. Helen Westley's corned-beef-&-cabbage exterior provides many a welcome guffaw...
...more vital part of small-town U. S. life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...