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...resourceful director is telling a story with the care and skill it deserves. Scene by scene, and shot by shot, the picture is almost wholly credible and pleasing. It is curious that such good moviemaking does not add up to more. One trouble may be that more talent and solemn care have gone into the show than the basic idea is worth. Also, loving attention to detail may have deprived the picture as a whole of form, drive and pace. It is still superior to the run of movies, which offer nothing much worth looking at and nothing much worth...
Mutual's razzle-dazzle approach to a solemn subject brought mixed reactions. Throughout the show the audience giggled appreciatively. In Massachusetts, vacationing Sir Arthur Salter (TIME, Sept. 20) said thoughtfully: "In England we had a series of talks on atomic energy . . . but without any . . . music, applause, and the impersonation of isotopes to hold the flagging attention...
What amazed investigators-and might well appall Wall Street-was that Goldsmith's comic-strip forecasts had been right as often as many solemn market guides that rely on the "science" of charts, trend lines, explosion points, recoils, double tops and double bottoms. Nevertheless, the Attorney General last week got an injunction stopping Goldsmith's forecasts-not because they came from comic strips but because he had not said...
...Quarterly, a sort of trade journal with a small circulation, nine British pundits have just completed a long, solemn look at radio in its larger social aspects. Since the British experts strongly favor their brand of radio, the assortment of brickbats and posies they lob at the U.S. will be particularly interesting to U.S. radiomen...
From the moment (11:33 a.m., Saturday, Sept. 4) when Wilhelmina dotted the second i of her bold signature at the solemn abdication ceremony in Amsterdam's Royal Palace, The Netherlands' Queen was her auburn-haired, 39-year-old daughter Juliana. By her own choice, Wilhelmina had become merely a dowager Princess of The Netherlands...