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...same foreign agencies . . . allege that 'The Russians lost Petsamo.' . . . Since Dec. 1 Petsamo has been in the hands of Soviet troops." (True.) Letting their feelings run away with them, the Russians then added a weird tale of their...
...Girl Friday (Columbia). One day last spring, sporty Director Howard Hawks had an idea. It was a rather weird idea; he kept it to himself until he had bought (for $35,000) the rights to The Front Page, the Hecht-MacArthur stage hit, from which Lewis Milestone had already made a picture (1931). Hawks remade the picture, changed its title to His Girl Friday. The result is not just another remake, for Director Hawks's weird idea was also to remake the sex of his leading character. Hildy Johnson, ace newshawk, played by tough-talking Lee Tracy...
...weird as it sounds, the change not only furthers the comedy talents of Rosalind Russell (which were first frontpaged in The Women), but the picture's love interest. Hildegarde appears as a young woman, trying to leave the news paper business. She begins bravely by divorcing her husband and managing editor, Walter Burns (Gary Grant), falls flat for Insuranceman Bruce (Ralph Bellamy), who has rubbers, an umbrella and a companionate mother...
This is an amazing band. It builds harmonies and ideas that other bands never get near. Often the band will Improvise collectively in this same weird timbre--whereas most people think that their complicated style takes months of rehearsal on each thing. I could ramble on for pages about this bunch. Suffice it to say that practically every critic thinks they are the biggest and most important thing in jazz, and get ye down to the Southland to hear them. By the way, the Duke will be at Briggs and Briggs this afternoon at three thirty. Drop over and meet...
...ballot, on the grounds that such persons are likely to be slugnutty and irresponsible. "The wisdom of the founding fathers," trumpeted he, "led them to the view that youngsters under 21 were, on the whole, too foolish to vote. But not having envisaged the possibility of such weird economic philosophies as 'ham & eggs' or '$200 a month,' it apparently never occurred to them that there might be an age beyond which people would also be too foolish to vote...