Word: 34th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Screen Directors' Playhouse (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). Edmund Gwenn in Miracle on 34th Street...
...ladies' garment workers, who clothe the U.S. woman above the wrist, below the neck, and above the ankle. Just about everything that goes into a woman's bureau drawer or hangs in her closet comes from this compact, 23-block area that runs north from 34th Street to Times Square, west from Broadway to Ninth Avenue. Flanking it to the south is the U.S. fur center, seven noisome streets. On its eastern border are the millinery shops where half of U.S. ladies' hats are fashioned...
With remarkable skill, this single-cylinder fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...
Among the best is a series of drawings from official documents of the 29th-34th Congresses, by unidentified artists: scenes of camps and deserts, with the exquisite finish and the unearthliness of Dali's early work-a train of mules vanishing, single file, into the haze of the desert, ridden by grave, top-hatted emigrants; a mirage of tall minareted cities, floating on the horizon...
...Theater (Mon. 9 pm., CBS). Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street...