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...Broadway play Yellow Jack by Sidney Howard. In the dramatized account of the U.S. Army's conquest of yellow fever in Cuba, Lorne Greene was convincing as Major Walter Reed. Dane Clark packed considerable power into the role of Dr. Lazear, and Jackie Cooper, stuffed with brogue, blarney and bluster, was effective as O'Hara. Wally Cox wittily handled his small part as the soldier who becomes an innocent guinea pig for the medicos. Unfortunately the play itself had a tendency to drag between high moments and a habit of making its points over and over again...
...river crossing, ambushed another in the Maragua Valley. In this valley alone, the Fusiliers bagged 76 Mau Mau. The R.A.F. strafed and bombed the Mau Mau remnants as they fell back to their forests, and the British soon had them cornered on a wooded hill known as Blarney Castle. Mau Mau losses in the battle so far: 197 killed, including two "generals." Total British loss: three wounded...
...around New York, and some effective minor types, notably a group of smart-aleck cabbies. In a straight acting role, Song & Dance Man Dailey plays the cab driver in robust style, while Constance Smith is a winsomely wide-eyed passenger. Amusing scene: Colleen Smith using a bit of blarney to talk an Irish cop out of giving Cabbie Dailey a traffic ticket...
Just as candidly, the defendants told the court why they had been so anxious to get rid of the boss: Jones, a great whisky salesman (he built Old Schenley's sales in Boston by passing out Blarney-stone rings to barkeeps as a sales incentive), had begun drinking so heavily that clients were complaining, and the agency had lost three big accounts. Moreover, the defendants charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones...
After Cathy and the Trasks, the Hamiltons are anticlimactically pleasant and folksy. Sam Hamilton was a big, kindly North-of-Ireland man with tenderness, blarney and wisdom in about equal proportions. His ranch was a failure, but he raised a big family of boys and girls who turned out pretty well. Any man would be lucky to have so lovable a grandfather as Novelist Steinbeck...