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...Groom Wore Spurs (Fidelity; Universal-International) tries to poke fun at a singing cowboy movie star (Jack Carson) who is a bit of a stinker, fears horses and cannot sing. Though the idea seems worth a farce, it is clumsily turned, geared to a creaky romance (involving Ginger Rogers as a lawyer) and powered by melodramatic nonsense. The joke proves to be not so much on western heroes as on Hollywood farceurs...
...Member of the Wedding. Carson McCullers' sensitive study of a lonely, self-centered, self-dramatizing little Southern girl just one step from adolescence (TIME...
Musical Comedy Time (Mon. 9:30 p.m., NBC). No, No, Nanette1, with Mindy Carson...
...arms production. Fleischmann's chief aides: LELAND E. SPENCER, 42, vice president of Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. and World War II tire czar, rubber division boss; MARSHALL M. SMITH, 54, former president of E. W. Bliss Co. (machine tools), allocating industrial and construction machinery for defense; DAVID B. CARSON, 60, vice president Of Sharon Steel Corp., channeling iron & steel to arms contractors; WALTER SKUCE, 46, Owens-Corning Fiberglas executive, who helped run World War II's Controlled Materials Plan, now drafting a similar program for allocation of scarce metals...
McDonald has scheduled three Phone-vision showings daily (at 4, 7 and 9 p.m.), and the films move progressively each day from one time period to another. The 300 Phonevision subscribers had an initial choice of April Showers, a 1948 musical starring Jack Carson; Welcome Stranger, a 1947 Bing Crosby comedy, and 1948's Homecoming, with Clark Gable and Lana Turner. Explained McDonald: "It wouldn't be a real test if we had only the best. Our sole interest is to find out the public reaction to Phonevision...