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...story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most of the characters talk and act like damyankees; the scenery is strictly studio-lot Georgian; there...
...easy byplay between Kelly's rock-solid acting, which carries the show and is as sure as anything in pictures, and Sinatra's gently amateurish pseudo-goofiness, with its engaging echoes of Stan Laurel...
Deeply distrustful of propaganda wizardry at home, Hoyt raised hell, sometimes in public, with that school of governmental thought that wants to manipulate the people into "war awareness." His prescription: just give them a play-byplay account of the real war, as swiftly, as honestly, and as completely as legitimate security reasons permit. He succeeded conspicuously in the days of Tarawa. But this was still the exception emphasizing the questionable rule that, for instance, was applied to the Bari disaster: to resent rather than encourage the people's desire to participate in the ups & downs of military operations...
...living strategy. For last week A.F. of L.'s William Green and C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, who have held labor in line with the Little Steel formula, marched to the White House to threaten mutiny unless prices went down. This was a very interesting piece of byplay, for everyone guessed that while the two labor leaders talked tough on the front steps, to impress their members, they were probably much less belligerent inside, imploring the President to hold prices level, rather than threatening him if he did not roll prices back...
...keep both subordinated to him. Thus he raises Goebbels to new eminence at home, where the master propagandist's powers are most effective, and at the same time appeases Goebbels' enemies, the old-school generals, by reinstating them in important army commands. One move in this continuous byplay last week was an order subordinating Heinrich Himmler's Waffen SS to the Wehrmacht's orders...