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...Chased out of bases in the Solomons, last week they decided to attack Milne Bay, which lies at the southern tip of New Guinea. They headed south in warships and transports. Allied fighter planes lugging small bombs spotted them, strafed their transports and sank a gunboat. But under a screen of low-lying clouds and a tropical downpour, they ducked into the ten-mile-wide mouth of Milne Bay, launched barges and poured out on the swamp-fringed shore...
This is the case with the Brattle Hall presentation with three notable exceptions. The lovable Grandpa Vanderhof is played by one of stage and screen's great character actors, Fred Stone, whose acting is a fine example of comic technique. He has all the timing, presence, and quaint mannerisms that are required to bring such a role to life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress...
...really transparent plastic window pane, which will withstand the explosion of a 150-lb. bomb eight feet away, has been developed by Monsanto to end the danger of flying glass during air raids. The pane is made of 16-mesh wire screen sandwiched between two sheets of cellulose acetate plastic. It can be easily mounted in standard window frames...
...lets the director fool around with all manner of disconnected dramatic scenes, and that gives William Powell and Hedy Lamar a chance to clinch at random, and everyone a chance to act at will could hardly be anything but fun for those on the Hollywood side of the screen. From this side, however, the effect is thoroughly confusing...
...Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...