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...Fourth Air Force (Riverside. Calif.). To the Army's youngest major general. 51-year-old Lewis Hyde Brereton (one of the few Army men whose careers began in the Navy) goes command of the Third Air Force at Tampa, Fla. To succeed Major General James E. Chaney, who is watching World War II in Great Britain, 54-year-old Major General Herbert A. Dargue takes command of the First Air Force at Mitchel Field. L.I. (see p. 33). New commander of the Second Air Force (Spokane, Wash.) is 53-year-old Major General Millard F. Harmon...
...part of the job of air defense is organizing the civilian population to warn of the approach of enemy aircraft. Pattern for what civilians could do was set last winter when General Chaney of the First Air Force tested a vast civilian warning net. Few weeks ago the four Air Force commanders got together with Major General Delos C. Emmons, commander of the GHQ Air Force, to study General Chaney's experiment. This week the Army announced that civilian warning systems would be set up in all the Air Force districts...
...Gary Cooper plays Texan Gary Cooper as well as always, and Preston Foster gives a convincing performance as a tough Mountie sergeant. But what really raises the show to the shouldn't-be-missed list are minor roles filled by such veterans as Akim Tamiroff, Lynne Overman, and Lon Chaney Jr. as Canadian cowboys and Walter Hampden as an Indian chief. Amongst the funniest strips of celluloid in this year's output is the strip-tease duel between Overman's Scotch Indian and Tamiroff as his halfbreed expartner who shoots not for the heart but for the suspender button...
Costumed crustaceously, and made up as thickly as his famous father's Hunchback of Notre Dame, huge (6 ft. 2), horrific Lon Chaney Jr., complained he was getting heavier parts than his father ever got. Slumped gigantically against a Hollywood stage prop, he gratefully accepted a light from Cinemactress Anne Nagel, moaned: "I want to do character roles, not robot parts...
...carry a final coal to Newcastle, the supporting cast with Wesley Addy, Mark Smith and June Walker rounds out the complete whole. Despite its two stars the brilliance of "Twelfth Night" lies in its balance. From Margaret Webster's direction and Stewart Chaney's sets down to the last jigging dance, not a jog is amiss...