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...Cagneys' first independent film suggests that their worst wishers were dead right. Johnny Come Lately stars the man who was a top Warner's moneymaker in a role he likes and to which he gives everything he has. It introduces to the screen Grace (Kind Lady) George, luminous in a role which should so endear her to U.S. cinemaudiences that she may well become overnight on the screen what she has been for years on Broadway - the official quintessence of elderly? femininity. The film it self is rich nostalgic fare, elegantly dished out, about small-town politics...
...high, thin, wispy cirrus cloud and its relatives, the milky cirrostratus and ripply cirrocumulus, are ideal cover for high-altitude bombers: they provide a one-way screen that allows an airman to see his target but hides him from planes or groundlings below...
...they confuse reality with fact. They think that photofact is intrinsically superior to photofiction, and indulge an even more mistaken idea that there is something undignified in entertaining the customers. But several recent British documentaries (some already released, others soon to be) prove that all it takes to make screen fact as good as the best screen fiction is the know...
Died. Arthur Farnsworth, 36, aeronautical-parts executive, husband of Screen Tragedienne Bette Davis; two days after he dropped unconscious on Hollywood Boulevard, two months after a head-banging fall downstairs; in Hollywood...
Married. Elissa Landi, 38, novel-writing stage & screen actress, granddaughter of Austria's Empress Elizabeth (whose daughter, Elissa's mother, was never acknowledged by the Emperor); and Curtiss Kinney Thomas, 37, author; she for the second time; in Manhattan...