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...start toward celluloid when Matinee Idol Gary Grant, a warm admirer of Novelist Richard Llewellyn's works, told RKO's Executive Producer Charles Koerner that he wanted to play the novel's pimply, adolescent, Cockney hero, Ernie Mott. It got a propitious leg-up when young Producer David Hempstead called in Clifford Odets to do the screen play. It got itself and Hollywood a new and gifted director when Odets took on that job, too. For still more luster, Producer Hempstead-and the script-enticed Ethel Barrymore back into pictures...
...Ernie Mott (Gary Grant), to be sure, is no longer pimpled or puerile, and no longer ends his story in vindictive dedication to petty crime; yet his meaning, as an embattled young man of his century, has been rather clarified than muddied in the movie. He begins as a cocky, kindly, no-count bum, the best motive for whose footlessness is his dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand...
...than to most Britons, the International Missionary Council is nevertheless the biggest organization in the Protestant missionary field. Through its London and Manhattan offices the Council directs the activities of missionary groups in 28 countries. Chiefly responsible for these efforts is the Council's secretary (Chairman John R. Mott's title is honorary). Last week the Council elected a new British secretary-the Rev. Norman Goodall. He succeeds famed missionary Dr. William Paton, who died last August...
...There is something like the mountains and the sea in John R. Mott," Professor Henry Nelson Wieman once wrote of him. "He will always be the same, very simple and a bit sublime...
...Mott's favorite maxim: "Let us turn stumbling blocks into steppingstones." Another Motto: "Pessimists never are in demand and never become great leaders or servants of humanity...