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Born in Enid, John Sherman Billings ley quit school after the fourth grade. At twelve he had his own soda-pop stand...
...some very effective background blackout shots which brightened up the whole show; all this in contrast to the "Secrets of Scotland Yard," the added attraction, which kills off the only good actor, C. Aubrey Smith, in the first reel, thereby losing all chance of becoming anything more than the Grade C picture it was intended...
...writing French and English on a typewriter. He was then four. At five, employing a formula of his own devising, he could instantly name the day of the week on which any date in history fell. When he was six his mother surrendered him to a first-grade teacher. The teacher promptly surrendered to William. The most famous infant prodigy of his generation knew more about fractions than...
Pete Harwood, New England A.A.U. pole-vault title holder, entered the V-12 and Eliot House from Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire. His father, a 1920 Harvard man and U.S. Olympic pole-vaulter, started Pete vaulting with an old birch pole in the fifth grade at Concord, Mass. By the time Harwood had reached the eighth grade, he was clearing 8 ft., 6 in., although at the time his real ambition was baseball. It wasn't until his junior year at Exeter that Harwood discarded everything else and concentrated on the pole-vault, finishing the season with a jump...
Fleet, flexible second-grade melodrama, handled with habitual British know-how, Candlelight is further enjoyable for its three leading performances. Canadian Carla Lehmann, with her prairie voice, is about twice as American as the average U.S. screen heroine. James Mason, an English matinee idol new to U.S. cinemaddicts, suggests a welterweight Clark Gable. Walter Rilla, once popular on the German stage and screen, is perhaps the most satisfying portrayer of suave continental menace since the late Conrad Veidt...