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With the benefit of low grade B dialogue and the technicolor of five years ago, this attempt might have been entertaining, but even these meagre requirements have not been met with the result that the picture has all the zip of a three-day-old glass of beer...
...voice as that of The Shadow of a year prior. Compared to The Shadow's well-remembered activities, the War of the Worlds was tame stuff. On the whole, college-bred listeners who first thought the program was a news broadcast were twice as successful as grade-school graduates in detecting that what they heard was fiction. But generally, Dr. Cantril's researchers found, critical ability was affected by other factors tending to create susceptibility. Most significant of these were universal insecurity, worries, phobias, fatalism, war fear. To sum up, Dr. Cantril quoted the late Heywood Broun: "Jitters...
...last 33½ years jolly, auburn-haired Mrs. Marguerite S. Cunningham, 51, has taught in New York City's grade schools. She is a popular teacher, but her record is not unblemished. She has been absent from class 1,556 days, tardy 724 times. A big woman (5 ft. n, 275 lb.), she suffers from high blood pressure (see p. 72), walks with a cane...
Fred Astaire has proved conclusively by this time that he can make a high grade picture without the aid of Ginger Rogers. His friendly face, his dancing agility, and above all, his capacity for natural acting are bound to put across any production, no matter how fantastic its plot or how mediocre its songs. Not that the plot of "Broadway Melody of 1940" is fantastic as musical comedy plots go. Fred Astaire and George Murphy appear first as the tap-dancing team at a small and not too swanky cafe. There they are seen by agent Frank Morgan, who spots...
Today Caney Creek Community Center has a grade school, high school and junior college. Its $250,000 plant (43 buildings) is the result of contributions from Wellesley and Radcliffe College alumnae, of various women's organizations, who also pay its $50,000 yearly running expenses. It has electricity, but no telephone, no telegraph. Its post office is Pippapass, Ky.-in honor of New England Browning Society donors. In honor of Kipling, its headmistress's office is labeled...