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...good radio director must be able to handle actors, sound and music for the creation of a single well-knit performance. His work is done fast, without benefit of retakes or tryouts on the road. He possesses talents easily comparable to those of much more greatly publicized stage and screen directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Director's Guild | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...movies so fine. The local squire who has done everything to stop the school so that the old ways may continue, is treated only with a humor that makes him wholly likeable and amusing. Yet Emlyn Williams--perhaps better known as an actor on the British stage and screen--has built up two well-developed characters and created a powerful, if subjective, conflict between them. Around this he has built a play which though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore and a fine company of actors. Miss Barrymore plays the role of the spinster with great...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 5/7/1942 | See Source »

...mind. Not that "Saboteur" is his best offering, but he has come back into his own again, back to the chase and all its whirls. The result is a tense two hours of entertainment dealt out with a freshness of approach and a relish of taste unusual in recent screen offerings...

Author: By J. B Mcm., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Headlining a list of top-flight personalities from stage, screen, radio, and the United States Marines, Jinx Falkenburg, America's magazine cover girl and queen of the billboards, will lecture very, very informally and exchange quips with the Class of '45 at the Freshman Smoker on May 11, the Yardling Committee announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jinx Falkenburg Heads List Of '45 Smoker Celebrities | 5/1/1942 | See Source »

...Hays office, keeper of Hollywood's screen morals, not long ago forbade Republic, home of the Hollywood Western picture, to use the classic phrase, "Reach, buddy!", because it suggested excessive gunplay. Last fortnight the Hays office almost broke Republic's heart by scissoring the words, "Head for the border, boys!", from another Western: they intimated that the U.S.'s good neighbor, Mexico, was a haven for outlaws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borderline Stuff | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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