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Three Hours to Kill (Harry Joe Brown, Columbia) might be called a saddle-soap opera. The heroine (Donna Reed) is a girl in "trouble," a sort of Stella Dallas of the Purple Sage, and pretty grim about it too. To make matters worse, she doesn't even get the hero (Dana Andrews...
...naive enough to say as late as 1939: "I hate Communism, but it is founded on belief in the control of Government, including the economic system, by the people themselves. It is the very antithesis of Nazism." Many a liberal "prima donna" thought the same. Ickes, who died in 1952, lived long enough to learn otherwise...
Died. Fritzi Scheff, 72, Vienna-born prima donna and the toast of Broadway at the turn of the century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...
...From Here to Eternity, voted best picture, picked up seven other Oscars as well: best supporting actor, Frank Sinatra; best supporting actress, Donna Reed; best director, Fred Zinnemann; best black & white cinematography, Burnett Guffy; best screenplay, Daniel Taradash; best film editing, William Lyon; best sound recording, John P. Livadary...
...pretty rough week. Critic Virgil Thomson of the Herald Tribune took aim at the impressionistic new stage set with which Rudolf Bing & Co. have tried to brighten Don Giovanni, and let go with both barrels: "In this presentation, Don Giovanni lives just across the street from Donna Anna, but she does not recognize him when he tries to rape her ... All this residential proximity turns the story into a news item about how two ladies got rid of a criminal neighbor...