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...syndicated "Pitching Horseshoes" last week, Columnist Billy Rose told a touching tale about an actress of bygone days whom he called Harriet Reeves. According to Rose, she was a prima donna who made many enemies by her scene-stealing and slights before a weak heart forced her to quit the stage. Then, told that she had only a few months to live, Harriet Reeves contritely determined to give an elaborate party for the people she had wronged. But on the appointed night "last summer," nobody came. After two hours of humiliating waiting, Harriet Reeves had a heart attack and died...
...Rome's Church of St. Augustine, a requiem mass commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Benito Mussolini was attended by the dictator's widow, Donna Rachele, son Romano and daughters Anna Maria and Countess Edda Ciano. The black-clad Mussolini family stood throughout the long ceremony while a cordon of police surrounded the church. Arrested: one student who shouted "Viva Mussolini!" above the voices of the singers...
Screen Guild Theater (Thurs. 9 p.m., NBC). James Stewart, Donna Reed and Victor Moore in It's a Wonderful Life...
...anti-male message-that the city is a jungle of ravening wolves-is hackneyed, but the heroine (Donna Reed) is original and haunting: she is a sweet girl who simply wanders changelessly and sadly through assorted jobs, cities, and love affairs. All that Ladd manages to discover is that she was a much-dated girl who always remembered to bake a birthday cake for her brother. Also, it seems that she took up with almost anybody who made a pass at her because she "felt sorry for people...
June Havoc is surprisingly good as the dead girl's showgirl friend; Alan Ladd and Donna Reed are unsurprisingly mediocre, but no one would go to the movies to see them, anyhow. "Chicago Deadline" is not the sort of picture you'd go out of your way to see; but once inside, you won't walk out, either...