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...cruisers reported to Admiral Vian's flagship: "Four suspicious vessels to the starboard." The A.P.'s Preston Grover raised his field glasses, saw the Italian fleet on the horizon. Said he to the Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer: "Well, it's been nice knowing you." Mowrer's throat was too dry for reply; he nodded, and admired a British captain calmly ramming tobacco into his pipe...
...FOREIGNERS-Preston Schoyer-Dodd, Mead...
...Author. The Foreigners is an excellent introduction to China and her people in war & peace. It also introduces a distinctly talented if uneven new writer. Preston Schoyer left Yale in 1933 determined never to do a lick of work if he could possibly help it. Nevertheless, for two years he taught and coached at Yale-in-China. After graduate work at Yale in Oriental studies, he spent another year writing short stories in Manhattan. In 1938 he returned to wartime China...
Sullivan's Travels (Paramount). Scenarist Preston Sturges, who became a cinema director two years ago, has successively and refreshingly satirized U.S. machine politics (The Great McGinty), advertising (Christmas in July), and the boy-meets-girl formula (The Lady Eve). He now aims his brisk sarcasm at the moviemakers themselves...
...everyone else on the head; and then suddenly, without any warning, to shift the mood--have one of the cops thrown out on the street, blood pouring from his face, his body writhing in agony. Hitchcock was interested in seeing what the audience's reaction would be. Though Preston Sturges undoubtedly had different motives, it is precisely this sort of thing that he does in "Sullivan's Travels." If at times the sudden shift of mood and scene becomes a little confusing and incongruous, it is because Mr. Sturges has set for himself too difficult a task; but certainly...