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Died. Laurence Binyon, 73, poet. Orientalist ; in Reading, England. He was best known for his World War I ode. For the Fallen* which was widely popularized when broadcast in 1934 by the Prince of Wales at Armistice Day ceremonies. He was the British Museum's keeper of prints & drawings...
That is the kind of thing Rosalind Russell has been do.ng in a series of career-woman pictures, most of which have made rather unfunny use of her firm talent for comedy. This time she has the welcome assistance of a first-rate Claude Binyon script, the expert direction of J. Mitchell Leisen, and a chorus of sweet supporting performers. Result: a very funny full-dress comedy...
POLITE ESSAYS-Ezra Pound-New Directions ($2.50). The casual but by no means languid prose of a great verse stylist. Sometimes crotchety, more often bright and sound, Ezra's remarks concern the works of Dante, Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, Harold Monro, Laurence Binyon ("The younger generation may have forgotten Binyon's sad youth, poisoned in the cradle by the abominable dogbiscuit of Milton's rhetoric.") Also his famous piece on "How to Read...
Invitation to Happiness, by the six-year-old writer-director combination of Claude Binyon and Wesley Ruggles, is not exactly up Cinemactress Dunne's gay alley, but it is a setup for headstrong Cinemactor MacMurray, a field day for Character Actors William Collier Sr. and Charles Ruggles, Wesley's brother...
...playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more money. Last...