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...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G.l.s and Movies | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Unlike the pseudo GI celluloid tripe dished out by Abbott and Costollo. "Hargrove" is an easy to look at picture of a home town rookie who can't get "on the ball" but who has enough natural intelligence to add four and four and get more than a headache. Slapstick is present, of course, but is held to a minimum as poor Hargrove progresses from cleaning garbage cans at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to cleaning garbage cans aboard a convey bound for action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 7/11/1944 | See Source »

...case had rocked Santa Ana, Calif., and the $50,000,000 Army air base there. It had split the town's top social stratum wide open, divided officers on the station into cliques, shaken the loyalties of thousands of cadets in training. Now the feud between Colonel William Abbott Robertson, frosty commanding officer of the base, and Colonel Joseph James Canella, brawny, fun-loving base quartermaster, hit its climax. Colonel Canella was indicted for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Colliding Colonels | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...youth, when he attended intellectual gatherings with Paul Gauguin, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Paul Valery and Stephane Mallarme, Gide wore a romantic cape, but always carried a Bible in his pocket. His greatest gaffe was made when as a publisher's reader he turned down the first volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gide Fad | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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