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Higher and Higher (R.K.O.Radio). One of the most remarkable events since the Flood took place on New Year's Eve in some 50 U.S. cinegogues. On a screen wispy with angelic clouds, a clinching pair of lovers receded to a vanishing point and were replaced by a speck which grew & grew into the huge image of a gaunt, sad-eyed, solitary young man. His posture suggested St. Francis preaching to the birds, and the hysterical twittering of the audience sustained the illusion. The young man was, in fact, in his own peculiar way, delivering a benediction. He was singing...
This scene is the climax of Sinatra's screen debut. Up to this point the debut is markedly tactful. Sinatra is surrounded by such seasoned entertainers as Leon Errol and Jack Haley. The story is carefully simpleminded. Errol appears as a piano manufacturer on the financial skids. His factotum, Jack Haley, hits on the idea of building his scullery maid (Michele Morgan) into the season's glamor girl. Sinatra, playing a character named Frank Sinatra, is simply a shy young fellow next door who has struck up a songful flirtation with the slavey...
Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increased reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
Between 4 and 5 a.m. under a ringed half moon, with lightning stabbing the horizon, the American ships entered the narrow channel through Arawe's island screen. The wooded, sloping Jap shore lay silent, waiting...
...Bari itself was an incidental target. The bombers which had somehow slipped through the screen of overwhelming Allied air superiority headed for the harbor, studded with ships of a newly arrived convoy. Two ammunition vessels blew up, setting their neighbors ablaze. From other bombed ships thick, pitch-black smoke began to wallow towards the blue sky. Here and there ack-ack guns barked angrily-too late...