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Note to Robert Benchley, Jr., c o Harvard Lampoon: Your mag picked Vronica Lake as the year's biggest pain-in-the-neck or something like that. You might like to know that your pappy has been cast by Paramount to support Miss Lake in "I Married A Witch." . . . --Boston Traveler, Feb. 9, '42. Chapman's Hollywood...
Chief scapegoat was a youthful Triestino named Antonio Skuka. Judge Tringali-Casanuova made no bones about the fact that the trial was a witch hunt. Because Italian law holds prisoners guilty until they are proved innocent, it was his job to see they were not proved innocent. According to Giornale d'ltalia, "the ability of the President [Tringali-Casanuova] who questioned him [Skuka] rigorously made him [Skuka] contradict himself...
...suave Clifton Webb to reap most of the glory. Graceful English Leonora Corbett romps amusingly as the twitting first wife; Peggy Wood (Old Acquaintance) huffs expertly as the twitted second one; and Mildred Natwick (Missouri Legend) plays the medium-who in her trances is wild-eyed as a witch on a broomstick, in her waking moments hearty and chin-up as a Girl Guide leader -with prodigious humor and bounce...
...since the Tennessee monkey trial had there been such clownish witch-hunting as went on in Georgia last week. Cigar-chewing, red-suspendered Gene Talmadge ran amok through Georgia colleges, chasing furriners (i.e. non-Georgians) and Negro-befrienders. "There was a lynching in . . . the Capitol of Georgia Monday," said the Atlanta Journal, describing the ouster of Walter Dewey Cocking as dean of University of Georgia's College of Education (TIME, July 21). At week's end the Governor had knocked out two more important Georgia educators and provoked serious retaliation...
They finally caught up with themselves in June in the Legislative Appropriation Bill. The joker lay in Section 5. Written in by witch-hunters who wanted Library of Congress staffs to stand and declare themselves, by law the section had to cover Congress too, and all its clerks. Result at week's end: 53 Senators have taken the oath, more than 1,300 House Office Building employes. Representatives, who always approach such things with reluctant feet, have been backward, but they must take the oath by payday, Aug. 1, or they will get no money...