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...ever a professional so dominated his field as to deserve the misused term "genius," that man was Billiard Master Willie Hoppe. A touring prodigy at nine, Willie deserted straight rail billiards in his early teens as too simple a game: at 13 he made a consecutive run of 2,000. At 18 he won his first world championship at the more difficult game of 18.1 balkline.* Since then he has consistently held the world's best players at bay. Age has not noticeably withered Willie's wizard touch with a cue. Now a silver-haired 65, he holds...
...attempting to provide Sentiment, Warner Brothers has re-made this child in the image of a Margaret O'Brien. She lisps heavily, rolls her eyes like billiard balls, and weeps her way through the most agonizing mandlin of bedroom scenes. It becomes impossible to identify with her as a human being, and the problem of conflict becomes as unreal...
Bernadine itself is a series of much too obvious situations. In the first of two acts, Miss Chase sets up her story with the care of someone balancing billiard balls on the edge of pockets. Then she taps each in; there is never doubt about which ball is going into which pocket. Buford Weldy, played by Johnny Stewart, is one of the destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy...
...Napoleon has had a seesaw installed in the billiard room, and he asked the Grand Maréchal if he had any idea what...
...others. Diane has a ball (doped-up good time) with all of them, but can't escape her own ritualistic premise: "There's nothing. There's nowhere, everything is empty." She ricochets from man to man in love affairs as monotonous as the click of billiard balls...