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...list, one of the greatest jazz orchestras, Duke Ellington's, will play at the RKO Boston Theater in downtown Boston, a whole week starting February 25th...
Journey Into Fear (RKO-Radio) is Orson Welles's first cinema journey into the field of mystery melodrama. Welles shows himself a careful student of Alfred Hitchcock, but he falls far short of the Old Master. Journey Into Fear also falls short of the best Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Amber sons...
...picture fails to measure up to its Welles predecessors may be partly due to the fact that it is the first he did not direct himself (director: Norman Foster) and that he left for South America before it was finished. When he saw the completed version, he exclaimed: "RKO must have let the janitor cut the picture," and insisted on writing and shooting a new ending. His revisions, unfortunately, only made the film more confusing...
Proceeding to other matters, Frankie Newton was to return to the Ken, but was prevented by union trouble. Lionel Hampton is opening for a month's engagement at the Tic Toc February 28. Thus with Ellington at the RKO Boston for a week then, and with Davision at the Ken, Boston's in for a fine load of jazz...
Alfred Hitchcock's "Suspicion" is now, a year after its original triumph, recognized as one of the better pictures to come out of Hollywood, or more specifically, from the RKO studios. Joan Fontaine, Academy Award winner for her work in this film, plays opposite a surprisingly serious Cary Grant...