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Scenarists Doris Malloy and Harry Clork needed and used every trick of their trade to expand a fragment of atmospheric writing by Runyon into an agreeable full-length feature. The excellent Manhattan exteriors, including the Plaza Hotel and Central Park, are not glass process shots but well selected bits of San Francisco...
...real paces. He placed in the money four years ago when his story, Many Thousands Gone, won a $5,000 prize. His collection of poems. Now With His Love, got him a good rating on form. Last week bystanders saw him perform for the first time on the full-length course of a novel. Slow over the first hurdles, he picked up in the straightaway, came home in style...
Audiences at the world première of his 33rd full-length play in Manhattan last week found that a half century had not improved Bernard Shaw as a dramatic structuralist. Loyal Shavians were quite prepared for that, since their idol has never wasted much time on the packaging of his products. What they were not prepared for was the woefully stale and shopworn condition of the product itself...
...program from noon to 7 p. m., reputedly for $2,000 a week. All night, twice a week, he prepares a running comment for Fox Movietone News, reputedly for $500 a week.* Between times he makes talk for Universal's Going Places travelogs, puts in time on a full-length cinema on the Mt. Everest expedition, goes on lecture tours, tends a fur farm at his home in Pawling, N. Y., serves as toastmaster at innumerable banquets, writes bits of three new books at a time...
...Labor Department Building was planned when Herbert Hoover was in the White House and the Cabinet was all of one sex. When Miss Perkins looked over her own office in the new building she found it satisfactory. Opening a door she stepped happily into an adjoining bathroom with full-length mirrors, frosted window panes, a shower stall with seven needle sprays and pastel-tinted tile. Then with consternation she noted that there was another door to her bathroom. She opened it and found it led into the future office of her Solicitor General, Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. Officially Mr. Wyzanski...