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Remembering last year's 23 to 2 massacre at the hands of the resurgent scribes, Blimpton disclosed that he had foraged the monster during a recent sortie into Widener Library. "He'll be great for double-headers," winked the musty old Dutch Tiler, as his rookie phenom masked a fast quadruple take behind a two-faced goatee...
...that they strayed too far from the original of Sally Benson's bobbysoxer. The first try (1942), starring Shirley Temple, cost a weighty $12,000 a week, an expenditure that overshot the show's modest Hooperating. A second attempt (1946) made Judy into such an unpleasant young monster that listeners stopped listening. "After all," sputters Author Benson in recollection, "Junior Miss Judy Graves is a nice little girl-a pest, but a nice pest. . ." The new Junior Miss is neither overweight nor out of focus, and her first Hooperating, last week, was a healthy...
...with a free will of its own; 3) coverage of the first journey beyond the earth, either to the moon or one of the planets; 4) the re-emergence of Atlantis; 5) the first real proof of a life after death; 6) discovery and photographing of a live prehistoric monster; 7) discovery of an eyewitness to a major event in history, such as the Crucifixion; 8) the first atom bombing of New York City; 9) the second coming of Christ...
...story of "Beauty and the Beast' (English Title) is the familiar one of the prince, enchanted into a hideous monster, who can regain his former state only through the true love of a girl. The Beauty is a girl of humble station and religious soul who is kept by the Beast in his castle. She penetrates the ugly coating of his appearance to feel first pity for the Beast, then real love-thus breaking the spell...
Like a dying whale, the monster Academy shindig saved its mightiest thrash for last: to everyone's astonishment, Loretta Young was named (over Competitors Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Dorothy McGuire, Susan Hayward) the year's best cinemactress for her blonde-braided lady-politicking in The Farmer's Daughter. Gurgled Loretta, who had never been...