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...Supermaniacs, whose wild devotion to their Man of Steel is a wacky U.S. phenomenon, radio had good news last week. They have devoured Superman in the comics, goggled at him in one-reel movies, have even got him on the air. But all they heard were transcribed programs. Now they can hear Superman in person on programs for which Manhattan's WOR foots the bill...
...hear were-wolves and howling dogs off stage, while a bat and a maniac add to the actual scene. A full quota of green light, darkness, and feminine screams also serve to enliven the evening. The central character is the sinister, putty-faced Count Dracula, an evil combination of Superman and Batman...
Letdown. In Des Moines, Iowa, an eight-year-old Superman fan, James Henderson, put on a Superman suit, jumped off the second-story landing and crashed. Said he, with a sprained ankle, "The darned thing wouldn't work...
...same new discoveries in photography are used throughout this new movie with no additions. Scenes are played both in semi-darkness and in complete darkness. The actors walk through so many shadows that one feels as though he were seeing Superman walk through walls. Shadows become too real and destroy the mood they were supposed to create. In contrast, light, when used, is too concentrated and too brilliant. There is no reality of illumination, and this alone is the source of the picture's weaknesses...
...insist, most of all, "upon the limited competence, indeed upon the fallibility of every man, be he ever so uncommon," and hardly less, upon the belief that "the mass of common men are, in the long run, less likely to be wrong than the individual judgement of any superman...