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...ARTICLE "SHOWMAN AND SCHOLAR IN IDAHO" [TIME, AUG. 10] CONTAINS UNTRUE STATEMENT TO THE EXTENT OF BEING LIBELOUS. I HAVE NEVER CALLED OUR PRESIDENT A TOOL OF THE BANKERS NOR DEFAMED HIM IN ANY WAY. I HAVE NEVER SAID I MADE MONEY CAMPAIGNING. . . . THERE ARE FOUR MEN OPPOSING ME, AND THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT ARTICLE WILl RECEIVE FEWEST VOTES. LETTER FOLLOWS ENUMERATING FALSE STATEMENTS. I DEMAND APOLOGY OR WILL TAKE ACTION AGAINST YOUR MAGAZINE...
Good Shows, Good Showman. It was no surprise to the Chinese that the fighter commander, lanky Colonel Robert L. Scott Jr., rode up front in the forays. Colonel Scott, only 34, had worked subordinately as a wingman with the A.V.G.s to learn the tricks of Jap fighting. Older than most of the Flying Tiger men, he was still of their breed and generation, had the right amount of calculating recklessness...
...neat device, Showman Cohan (James Cagney) tells his life story to Franklin Roosevelt (Captain Jack Young) in the White House, where he is summoned to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is the story of a cocky, puckish, talented Irish-American, who accepted the accident of his birth on July 4, 1878 as an implied command to wave the Stars & Stripes forever. Critics called the act corny, but audiences recognized it for what it was: a born showman expressing a sincere emotion...
...Canny Showman Cohan knew what he was doing when he insisted that Irish Jimmy Cagney was the one cinemactor who could play him. Smart, alert, hardheaded, Cagney is as typically American as Cohan himself. Like Cohan, he has a transparent personal honesty, a basic audience appeal. Like Cohan, he was once a hoofer...
Vain, shrewd, assertive, benevolent, half uplifter, half showman, at 60 De Mille is Hollywood's oldest successful movie maker. He got there by ignoring the art of motion-picture making, concentrating on expensive theatrics, and trimming his sails to the prevailing breeze. Reap is part of his latest excursion-pioneer Americana, a blend of history & hokum which has produced North West Mounted Police, Paramount's top grossing picture (about $2,500,000) of the last ten years. This calculated program has not produced one really fine motion picture, but it has long entertained the biggest segment...