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...vivid and of absorbing interest, the growing luridness of "Ebb Tide" is not a pleasant change in cinematic diet but in spite of its spasmodic gait it does create tension in its closing minutes. Nevertheless one still goes home distracted by unanswered situations and incidental superfluities in the script. In short, "Ebb Tide" is not recommended...
About ten dogs, all scotties except for one Sealyham, are called for in the script. Francis H. Hart, Jr. '27, author and director of "Straight Scotch," has tentatively selected the dogs used. He hopes that Flintfield Gayseal, a son of Champions, of the High Acre kennels of Newton Center, will be available for the play...
...small brood of hens, a turkey gobbler, and two dead chickens are also required in the script...
Roland Young is horribly miscast as the Sultan of Bagdad, and Louise Hovick as the villainess is unconvincing if not actually pathetic in her portrayal, but then the script did not give either of the two much in the way of material. June Lang does a perfect job providing a more or less platonic love interest with Tony Martin...
Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...