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Despite storms and other annoying little devices, Lowell House swears that Bunny Berigan and band are going to be at their dance tonight. Latest reports had Chairman Ash Campbell moaning about some spruce trees which had to be skied up to the dining hall, he having blithely persuaded the arborist to "deliver" them on Thursday, instead of Wednesday afternoon; but he promises that all will be snug and cozy, with Mr. Berigan pledged to soft and danceable tempos...
...years Elmer Irey has never written a magazine article, not even with ghostly aid. He has never given a tip to Walter Winchell, never been photographed in a Manhattan nightclub or on the beach at Miami. His desk has an ash tray made of counterfeiters' copper plates, three more which used to be opium containers. And that is the nearest thing there is to a T-Man* museum...
...have within 50 miles of either Seattle or Tacoma hundreds of millions of tons of coking coal with stronger coking properties than any coal in either Indiana, Ohio or Illinois, and just as good as the coking coal of Pennsylvania only a little higher in ash, but for the electrometallurgical process a little more ash does not interfere with the processing...
...France, excellent directors must be growing on every pomegranate tree or lurking in every ash-can. This time it is Marcel Carne who has sent over a directorial masterpiece in "Port of Shadows." Casual movie-goers, who are frequently puzzled as to what a director does besides sit in a canvas chair, could well study this picture and see how direction can make a film great...
Thunder Afloat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment...