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Fewer & Better. Payne's latest, The Marshall Story, was dredged chiefly from Manhattan's well-stocked 42nd Street library. Payne met Marshall once for a few minutes in China in 1946, but he has neither asked Marshall for information for his book nor has he spoken to anyone who has known Marshall. Says Payne: "I wanted to stay clear of the military mind." The result is that The Marshall Story also stays pretty clear of the inner Marshall, reads like what it is, a glib job of carpentry...
...film's mythical city (misleadingly introduced with a shot of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street) is run by an old-fashioned mobster (Robert Ryan), now quasi-respectable, in alliance with a mysterious mastermind of U.S. crime and corruption. The only honest public official in town is Police Captain Robert Mitchum, and though the crooks have had him shifted to a "quiet" district, all the picture's five killings take place in his bailiwick...
...London's critics refused to be pushed over. Wrote the Daily Express' John Barber: "My goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed...
Died. Thomas Alan Goldsborough, 73, longtime (1921-39) Maryland Congressman, since 1939 a federal judge, who twice (in 1946 and 1948) fined John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for breaking antistrike injunctions ("a threat to democratic government . . . evil, demoniac, monstrous"); of a heart attack while celebrating his 42nd wedding anniversary; in Washington...
...Public Enemy and Little Caesar. He tackled many ticklish social issues which other studios avoided, such as bad penal systems (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang), lynching (They Won't Forget), labor conditions (Black Fury). With Disraeli, the Warners started a cycle of film biographies; with 42nd Street, set the style for modern musicals...