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...Consultation fee of John J. Anthony (formerly Lester Kroll, taxi driver) of radio's Original Good-Will Hour was $25, but people who could not afford the fee might arrange to have their troubles aired over the radio. Mrs. Steiner asked Mr. Anthony his qualifications. He said he had "studied all the psychiatrists' work" and claimed that he had advised Vassar College on an Institute of Marital Relations (which Vassar does not have), and that Princeton had asked him to start an "experimental station." Nowhere to Go. Wherever she went, Mrs. Steiner saw people needing and paying...
Death stared from the cadavers of mighty buildings; the smashed, charred bones of the Reichstag (see cut); the battle-broken Chancellery, where Adolf Hitler and his paramour, Eva Braun, may have died; the ruins of the Propaganda Ministry, Foreign Office, Kroll Opera House and almost every other notable Berlin edifice. The stench of death rose too from corpses still rotting under debris, from the corpse-clogged Liitzow Canal, from hasty, shallow graves dug in every park and Platz...
FURY IN THE EARTH-Harry Harrison Kroll-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Rivermen, gamblers and pioneers think the end of the world is at hand as earthquakes wreck New Madrid, Tenn., in 1811. Tense and melodramatic...
...supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement of its rendition by Frau Hermann Göring II, re-enacted at Berlin's Kroll Opera House). There is intelligent characterization (best: a subtle young Nazi radioman who introduces Lili Marlene at the height of the German victories, later had to announce major German defeats). But Lili Marlene is the least satisfying of Director Jennings' pictures to reach the U.S. Too many mush-mouthed, romantic studio shots...
...choruses are magnificently directed by Louis Kroll, whose master hand is evident everywhere in the production. The trick salute in "Pinafore" and the eminently satirical (or 4F, if you're nasty) nature of the chorus come over brilliantly; Gilbert would love Kroll...