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...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn's Dodgers had faced one another in a do-or-die showdown for the National League pennant. And Brooklyn's big Righthander Whit Wyatt had pitched the Dodgers to a 1-to-0 shutout against the Cards' big Righthander Mort Cooper...
...Cooper and Wyatt were on the mound again and it was happening all over again, only not quite the same way. During August the scrappy young Cardinals had come up from behind until now they were only two games behind the faltering Dodgers. Cooper had not lost a game since he discarded his No. 13 shirt in disgust, and begun borrowing that teammate's shirt whose number corresponded to the number of the game he wanted...
That voodoo did it. Wearing Coaker Triplett's No. 20 last week, Cooper allowed only three hits (no Dodger reached second base), gave only one walk, scored two runs himself, shut out the Dodgers, 3-to-0. That mauling reduced Brooklyn's Bums-ten games ahead of St. Louis on Aug. 4-to a lead of only one slim game. Sure enough, next day, behind Southpaw Max Lanier, the Cards took the Dodgers again, 2-to-1, to tie for the lead...
...Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan; TIME...