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...Allied advance toward Calais goaded the Germans to fire last stinging salvos from their big cross-Channel guns. Some 100 big shells crashed down on the Dover strip ("Hell's Corner") in the space of four hours.* One deaf old lady of 82 slept on, unhurt, while her home was wrecked. When fire wardens awoke her amid the ruins, she looked around, said: "What a mess...
...office smashes in a decade. Runners-up this year: The Song of Bernadette, A Guy Named Joe, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Lassie Come Home, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Destination Tokyo, Lady in the Dark, Guadalcanal Diary, See Here Private Hargrove, The White Cliffs of Dover. ¶Men stars draw better than women. Gary Cooper, Gary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, Spencer Tracy, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Walter Pidgeon still pack them in, provided the picture is palatable. Tops among women are Greer Garson, Betty Grable, Bette Davis, Jean Arthur. Clark Gable may be the biggest draw...
...Republican convention meets in Chicago on June 26. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt announced the appointment of Republicans Stimson and Knox on the very eve of the G.O.P. convention, successfully stealing the headlines. On convention eve, 1944, dopesters guessed, he may be making headlines on the white cliffs of Dover...
...White Cliffs of Dover (M.G.M.) is an exquisite cinematic equivalent of the late Alice Duer Miller's best-selling poem of that title - which, for all its sincerity, can be most kindly described as lap-doggerel. The picture, which is a 126-minute apostrophe to Beau Geste Britons and a Beau Geste Britain, may be most kindly described as somewhat pish and more than a little posh. It may well give genuine admirers of good cinema and credible Englishmen the jimjams...
...Channel was kinder now. The crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...