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...brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing is a profession fit for worthy women. Since an average feature picture costs $300,000 to make, very few Hollywood producers care to experiment. A few departures from banal routine have established Warner Brothers, in their own eyes at least, as bold pathfinders in the realm of entertainment. Last autumn, with The Story of Louis Pasteur, Warner Brothers made the astonishing discovery that straightforward biography, long a well-rewarded branch of literature and the theatre, was equally adaptable...
Illinois went in for barns, with a dazzling red one by Dale Nichols and another by J. William Kennedy. Superbly banal was Paul Trebilcock's slick portrait study of Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt in red velvet with her sister Thelma, Viscountess Furness. A rare French influence showed in Split Rock Lighthouse by Minnesota's Eleanor DeLaitre, a yellow lighthouse painted with the vivid shallowness of French Modernist Raoul Dufy. Missouri's John de Martelly offered two ably cartooned old crones in Economic Discussion over coffee & doughnuts...
Wife v. Secretary (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a grimly stereotyped investigation, without novel outcome, of the banal situation indicated by its title. Adapted by Norman Krasna, Alice Duer Miller and John Lee Mahin from a Faith Baldwin story, acted by Clark Gable, Myrna Loy (wife) and Jean Harlow (secretary), it is patently destined to be, for its producers, if not for their more civilized customers, one of the most profitable pictures of the year...
...Last week his waltz, There's A Secret in My Heart, was publicly sung for the first time by Dale Wimbrow on the Eskimo Pie program over the NBC Blue Network. Theodore Metz was introduced to the radio audience. His latest song turned out to be "corny," smooth, banal. Publisher Marks predicted success for it. But many a kindly listener preferred to like it because it was written by the old man who, nearly 50 years ago, thought up a lively tune after passing through Old Town...
...subjects furnished anonymous information which enabled the researchers to select the 100 most happily wedded pairs, the 100 least happily wedded pairs. These 200 pairs and 100 divorced couples were given the Bernreuter Personality Inventory and the Strong Test of Vocational Interests, consisting in all of 545 questions, some banal, some trivial, some bizarre, but all shrewdly calculated to draw answers constituting in sum a significant mosaic of personality. The investigators then drew six portraits distinguishing the men & women of each of the three groups from the other...