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...Southerner (United Artists] is cinema's first wholehearted attempt since The Grapes of Wrath to portray in stirring fiction the lives of real people, in a real world, using their courage against real difficulties. In what it tries to do and in much that it achieves, it is worth any dozen run-of-the-studio Academy Award Winners...
Designed a portray the past present, and future of America, the new program "American In Music" may be heard over the Crimson Network on Wednesday evenings from 10 to 11 o'clock. Written by Miss Eileen Ellis, Radcliffe '45, the series originates in Radio Radcliffe...
Preston Sturges has the ability, all too rare among Hollywood's directors, to understand and to portray sympathetically honest human emotion. He succeeds where others fall, in avoiding the maudlin and trite by weaving just the right amount of humor into a situation. He succeeds so well that it is often a question whether the humorous frame rather than the theme is the dominant note in the motion picture...
...Beyond a doubt, in wartime the writer will portray the Germans primarily as enemies who kill, burn and destroy our homes and our families. In some large, more permanent sense this may be sometimes unobjective. But this unobjectivity is far from clashing with the truth. Didn't the Germans burn our towns? Didn't they kill women and children? Didn't they hang and didn't they shoot? And is not the writer right who in wartime wants to write, and will write, primarily about this and only about this...
...Works. Columnist Pyle, still genuinely humble yet not unaffected by his new fame, is particularly worried lest the forthcoming Pyle-based movie portray him dashing around with pad & pencil, eagerly asking questions and making notes...