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...Angeles Timesman William Mellors Henry, a journalistic institution in Southern California, took over a thrice-weekly Sunkist Orange program as substitute for gaudy, gossipy Hedda Hopper, now on vacation. Sobersided, hearth-loving Substitute Henry did not babble of cinema doings as had Miss Hopper. He prepared his newfangled columnar script by chatting long-distance with heterogeneous folk all over the world, setting down their impressions on matters frivolous and cosmic...
During the Hour he may hear the gossip of fellow agrarians, enjoy snatches of semi-classical music and follow the adventures of "Uncle Sam's Forest Rangers" as they plow through a script prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. He chuckles at the antics of Aunt Fanny, postmistress of mythical Cheery Valley, smiles knowingly when Announcer Everett Mitchell gets off his famed daily greeting (often in the midst of a nor'easter): "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
...Tillie-the-Toiler talents. But much credit belongs to the artful direction of balding, hawk-faced Garson Kanin (Bachelor Mother, My Favorite Wife), who never lets go the reins until the horse is in the barn. Another Hollywood youngster (26), Paul Jarrico, is author of the story and the script. Private Kanin, now 28 and in the U.S. Army, says: "Anybody can direct a good picture if he's got a good script...
This cinemadaptation of Novelist Geoffrey Household's best-selling Rogue Male is a superb thriller. Loaded with excitement, suspense and terror, it is a happy joining of a wonderfully workmanlike script by Dudley Nichols with talented direction by Fritz Lang and first-rate acting by Mr. Pidgeon, George Sanders, Joan Bennett, John Carradine...
Typical gag from the Harry Tugend-Dwight Taylor script: a songwriter (Oscar Levant) trying to converse with Cindy Lou's fire-eating aunt (Elizabeth Patterson) in the midst of her relics of the Confederacy: "My mother had a lot of General Grant's things in her home." She: "Bottles, I presume...