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Piccadilly Jim (TIME, Aug. 31), was the first of Author Wodehouse's books to receive adequate screen adaptation. That the cinema has never properly utilized his work is a misfortune which may soon be corrected. Five years ago, after his first professional visit to Hollywood, Author Wodehouse expressed remorse for having "cheated" his employers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) by accepting $104,000 for a year's work which consisted of "touching up" two stories. Last week, accompanied by Mrs. Wodehouse, two Pekinese, and a new typewriter to replace the 25-year-old one on which he had written...
...stage version of Craig's Wife, produced by Rosalie Stewart, climaxed the career of Actress Chrystal Herne. The screen version exhibits to good advantage the talents of two other ladies. Her brilliantly vitriolic portrayal as Mrs. Craig is likely to be a turning point for Actress Rosalind Russell, heretofore noted for her smooth handling of light comedy roles. The work of Dorothy Arzner, Hollywood's only woman director, is equally distinguished for giving pace without apparent effort to a picture that might, with less expert treatment, have seemed pedestrian...
...teaches a Negro swing musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank You Jeeves, though sure to disappoint Wodehouse addicts, is still a passably amusing farce. Sample dialog: When Bertie is trying to say that a young lady called at his flat and left without...
...like Colonel Knox and Chairmen Hamilton cannot be accused of the naivete of Hearst, and their irresponsible impeachments must be taken soley as a screen to hide their own mediocrity. The importance placed by the National Chairman upon David Dubinsky's position as an elector for the President is a Republican jest even funnier than most when one considers what the American eletoral college has long since become...
...stepped up into radio. He is one of very few public announcers whose voice can be used both in the U. S. and in England. Of his voice said the London Sunday Referee: "It has neither an American nor an English accent, but it grips the attention as few screen voices do." Voice Van Voorhis spends holidays tinkering his boat, sailing with his wife, his young daughter Nancy...