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Last week glory went out the window while notoriety came in at the door. It has been over two years a-coming, ever since Director Deeter read one script he could not handle. That script was the Selective Service Act. Deeter realized that most of his actors would be caught in the draft. Five of his men were conscientious objectors, but to Deeter their consciences seemed to mean less than their contribution to art. The life of Hedgerow was threatened, and with it the lamp of culture...
...triple threat team which placed "The Maltese Falcon" tops on last winter's entertainment bill, director John Huston has turned a routine espionage film into one of the fastest, most exciting pictures of the year. Unlike the "Falcon," "Across the Pacific" will not make movie history. Its plot and script, dashed off on a typewriter far less subtle than Dashiel Hammett's, are standardized portions of spy melodrama. The usual number of dead bodies up tortuous alleys combines with some amazingly handy Johnny-on-the-spot acts to make for a film which in other hands might have been only...
...misplaced, sophisticated dance team and a couple of singers pull down the average, but Willie Howard usually pops up again to make you forget it. Only the headliners are really good and this conglomeration isn't turned into a really good show. But, despite the handicap of a poor script it turns out to be an entertaining evening, which goes to show that "It ain't what you do, it's the way that...
...pleasant, comfortable voice. Like Red Barber, Allen seldom gets ruffled. Before he turned broadcaster he was an all-round athlete at Alabama U. (nickname: "The Skyrocket") and a semi-pro ballplayer. He is one of the most versatile and accurate U.S. sportscasters. When he reads from a script, his voice has no particular accent, but when he ad libs it comes straight from Dixie. Probable yearly earnings: above...
...Henry, short, stocky, pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth...