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Cried Cassandra of the Daily Mirror: "If our own military position does not permit of an assault on any single part of Hitler's 2,000-mile western front, then Russian hopes should not have been raised by the joint telegram from President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill. . . . Five hundred hours ago! France crumbled in less time than that. Five hundred hours! Plenty of time to lose hope. Plenty of time in which...
...Physical Culture is edited by unobtrusive, 36-year-old Ernest V. Heyn, crack movie-magazine editor (Modern Screen, et al.), who went to Macfadden's Photoplay in 1937, last year merged it with Movie Mirror to make it top movie magazine (circ. : 800,000). It stresses health as the foundation of female beauty. With a print order of 275,000, alleged newsstand returns of the new Physical Culture indicated sales double those of the old muscle magazine...
...press Mr. Roosevelt gave a free headline: "President Quotes Lincoln and Draws Parallel." Many a U.S. newspaper used the headline; and the New York (tabloid) Daily Mirror decided to give Mr. Roosevelt a check for a tyro head-writer's daily pay, sent him $5.94, deducting 6? for Social Security...
...into the dreadful Mr. Hyde, the result is not horrifying. It is laughable when he addresses his captured barmaid (Ingrid Bergman) as "my tired fungus"; revolting when he spits grape skins in her pretty face; hammy when he chuckles fiendish "Heh, heh, hehs" at his lecherous face in the mirror...
...only to fall victim to Hyde's sadism is a refreshing element in a preposterous part. As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast (Donald Crisp, Ian Hunter, etc.), they are as wooden as their roles. Hyde, heckling Jekyll in the mirror, probably sums it all up best. Says he: "How did such a dull, pompous ass like you ever think of anything as charming as this...