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...Candlelight in Algeria (British Lion 20th Century-Fox) illuminates a dark corner of the invasion of North Africa. Its heroine (Carla Lehmann), a Kansas-born sculptress, hides a fugitive Englishman (James Mason) from the local Nazi chief (Walter Rilla). Later she snitches a small camera from the lair of a collaborationist nightclub singer (Enid Stamp-Taylor). A lot of people are interested in this camera, because it contains film which shows the location of the seaside house in which General Mark Clark and his colleagues are soon to rehearse signals for the invasion. Dapper Nazi Rilla and his henchmen energetically...
Fleet, flexible second-grade melodrama, handled with habitual British know-how, Candlelight is further enjoyable for its three leading performances. Canadian Carla Lehmann, with her prairie voice, is about twice as American as the average U.S. screen heroine. James Mason, an English matinee idol new to U.S. cinemaddicts, suggests a welterweight Clark Gable. Walter Rilla, once popular on the German stage and screen, is perhaps the most satisfying portrayer of suave continental menace since the late Conrad Veidt...
...High Bridge, N.J.), Lukens was founded in 1810. Badly located for raw materials, it limped along until 1825, when upholstered, ambitious, 3O-year-old Rebecca Lukens inherited the business, became the first big-time U.S. female executive (see cut). Rebecca read steel cost sheets by sunlight and Shakespeare by candlelight, in 22 years won fame & fortune for herself and Lu kens. When she died in 1847, the business went to Son-in-law Dr. Charles Huston, whose descendants still own 37% of the company...
...love. "I know how to milk a cow and to plow the fields and I love every bit of it," Virginia Lucie said. His Lordship was pleased. He, too, had the country heart and he dreamed of how Virginia Lucie's dark hair would shine in the candlelight at the dinner hour and how her slim legs would twinkle across the great oak floors and her laughter would drive away the shadows in the stormy nights of winter...
...manufacture of many luxuries (including bath heaters, fur coats, evening dresses, horse and dog racing equipment) was stopped. Makers of women's stockings were restricted to four colors: candlelight, brown derby, touch of mauve, first love...