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...Story of Dr. Wassell misfires not because it is unfaithful to fact-a picture much less faithful to fact could have been much more true. And Cecil B. De Mille has great respect for fact. But he is a born romancer, a highly experienced showman, and old-fashioned in both fields. His talents, as well as his limitations, conspire to turn a saga of simple heroism into a typical Hollywood entertainment feature. But they also hamper this picture as simple entertainment...
...like him she has learned to handle it with mellow finesse. Her family (their name was once Simon) has been in show business for half a century. Her father is a music publisher. She has a brother and an uncle who are songwriters. Another uncle is Showman Gus Edwards. The family kept Joan's nose to the piano until she was 16. At Hunter College she majored in music and minored in psychology, taught piano and sang on the radio...
Most articulate were the Negroes. Volleyed California's State Tax Administrator B. B. Bratton: "Louis B. Mayer is losing [that] adroit sense of . . . the fitness of things which marks the master showman. . . ." Thundered George A. Beavers, of the Golden State Life Insurance Co.: "It is sheer folly for Jews to entertain . . . the notion that they will escape the wrath which racial and religious bigotry let loose when tensions are increased by propaganda novels like Uncle Tom's Cabin." Boomed the Negro press: Uncle Tom was a socially significant work in its day, now it is just a reminder...
Died. John Emanuel Leffler, 73, nefarious inventor, longtime Broadway showman; of coronary sclerosis; in Miami, Fla. At ten Leffler got a job passing out programs at Tony Pastor's, one rainy day picked up $4 in tips minding people's umbrellas, the next day invested the money in numbered brass tags. The result: hat-checking...
Family of Six. In Richmond, Va., State Selective Service authorities frowned on a showman's dependency claim. It included his wife, two children, three chimpanzees...