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...cinema treatment of the central action of Hemingway's book. In Paramount's version Jordan's dynamiting of the strategic bridge is a genuinely exciting bit of suspense. But two dozen grade-B melodramas handle the same theme better every year...
...Films. Cruze engaged Dodd to play ministerial roles, give technical advice on ecclesiastical usage. Since then the priest has appeared in or been technical adviser to more than 200 films. He performed his first movie wedding ceremony in Making the Grade. His last movie wedding was a year ago in They All Kissed the Bride. Once he was only a voice: in Cabin in the Cotton, Bette Davis tuned in on the radio, heard Dodd preach a sermon. Dodd's favorite picture was It Happened One Night, in which he appeared but did not utter a word...
...they're the intelligentsia, the of the upper strata, the brain this battalion. Our PRIVILEGE LIST" has appeared thirty of our and have made the grade. We're proud of our sister scholars but has to stay home...
...million acres of cotton this year. Bad weather and manpower troubles cut cotton plantings to less than 22 million acres. This picture was gloomy, but not final. There is nearly enough in reserve (eleven million bales) to meet a year's needs, but much of it is low-grade, or unsuitable short-staple. If-and this is a big if-the 1943 yield per acre is as good as last year's (a high of 272 lb. per acre), it will be enough to meet the record U.S. needs for a year...
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, with Bruno Walter at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides). Grade B performance and recording; Helen Traubel's Victor version is still tops...