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...shooting season was ticking round on the Western Desert last week. The heat was imperceptibly abating, like a fading headache. The nights were getting longer. The winds were cooling and veering northerly to kick up curtains of dust to screen assault...
...convention of prayer and peace talk, 10,000 of Jehovah's serious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before the convention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism. They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down a sooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) "men in khaki uniform broke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah's Witnesses and knocking him unconscious...
...Hired by the cinema industry to represent it in the Senate investigation of alleged Hollywood warmongering was Attorney Wendell L Wlllkie....Strapping ex-Sailor Stirling Hayden, blond rising screen star (TIME, Feb. 17), turned up in Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood..... Maureen O'Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious...
Unorthodox is La Cava's method of making a picture. He believes that the screen is not (like the stage) an acting medium, that a scene plays itself. La Cava begins a picture by throwing away the script, keeping the bare outline of the plot and developing it spontaneously around the personalities of the actors he has selected. If a scene rings true, it is right; if not, the actor should not be forced to play it. He writes most of the new script himself...
...laugh was Skelton's first screen test in 1932. Some bemused underling thought he was a romantic lead, gave him a dramatic test. The result was painful for all concerned. Son of an oldtime circus clown, Skelton had spent half his 19 years trying to make people laugh in medicine shows, on Mississippi river boats, in burlesque, vaudeville, the circus, Walkathons. He had already been thwarted in his life's ambition-lion taming-which dissolved one day when he saw Clyde Beatty clawed in the ring. The screen test over, he returned to vaudeville...