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This is a first-person story of the U.S. bomber raids on the Philippines, as told to TIME'S correspondent Melville Jacoby in Australia by Lieut. James Byington MacAfee of Charlotte, N.C., a dive-bomber pilot who had been flown out from Bataan because there were no planes for him to fly there and who had begged to be allowed to go back on the air raid with General Royce. His story begins with the bombers' arrival at the secret U.S. field in the Philippines...
...humor the birth of seven infants. In this somewhat redundant remake of the tear-jerking stage play, Life Begins, first screened in 1932, grave, talented, strikingly lovely Geraldine Fitzgerald plays the mother who dies (from a Caesarean operation) that her baby may live. Other maternity-ward performers: Spring Byington, Gloria Holden, Gladys George, and 20 babies (average age 14 days), who, by working a total of 73 seconds, earning $75, became Hollywood's highest-paid actors. From their pay checks the far-sighted U. S. Government deducted percentages for unemployment insurance, old-age pensions...
...role of Anthony P. Kirby. Blending the comic and the tragic, MR. Arnold's portrayal of the financier whose success has brought loneliness with it is one of the finest pieces of acting to come to the screen this year. Jean Arthur, James Stewart and particularly Spring Byington deserve high credit as well...
...group of legendary rebels which You Can't Take It With You assembles in the living room of a shabby urban household is Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), retired for 35 years because he decided one morning 'that working was no fun. His daughter, Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington). writes plays because someone once delivered a typewriter to the house by mistake; his son-in-law (Samuel Hinds) manufactures fireworks in the basement; his granddaughter, Essie (Ann Miller), studies ballet with a ferociously impecunious Russian (Mischa Auer); and the assorted camp followers of the Vanderhpf-Sycamore menage pass their time...
...which Columbia's President Harry Cohn last year paid a record price of $200,000. By the end of June, with a new flock of birds added to a cast which already included such rarities as Lionel Barrymore, James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Donald Meek, Spring Byington and Mischa Auer, shooting on the picture ended and 329,000 feet of film were sent to the cutting room. A finished feature picture contains 8,000. By last week, You Can't Take It With You was only about twice that size and almost in shape for its first...