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...CASS TIMBERLANE-Sinclair Lewis-Random House...
...Attend to sundry pressing business mat ters. Among them: the sale to M-G-M of the movie rights to Cass Timberlane, which, together with The Book-of-the-Month Club donative and the magazine serial rights, would certainly boost the total take for his new novel well up toward the half-million-dollar figure. It would ease Novelist Lewis into that golden horseshoe where Kathleen Winsor (For ever Amber) currently queened it over U.S. letters...
...with one misunderstanding and an other, both Archie and O'Malley face a thorough legal shellacking. They are saved when practically all the Paramount players who could be rounded up stage a benefit show. The acts, stronger on noise than on finesse, reach some sort of climax in Cass Daley's confident rendition of You Can't Blame a Gal for Tryin'. Best acts: Betty Hutton singing The Hard Way in self-explanation to a psychoanalyst; Eddie Bracken suffering superbly as a double in a horse opera; Robert Benchley showing Bing Crosby's four young...
...Detroit school board set up a separate authority, the Detroit Veterans Institute, and claimed tuition costs ($150 for 1,000 hours of instruction) under the G.I. Bill. It organized special G.I. classes at the centrally located Cass Technical High School, where veterans can choose what courses they like and progress as fast as possible. They are given specially condensed texts and hand-picked teachers. Being under the G.I. Bill of Rights, the students are eligible for a subsistence allotment of $50 a month, plus a $25 dependents allowance...
...Stampede. What emerges is a complicated musical involving a show girl (Dorothy Lamour) whose father owns a dud silver mine, a counterfeiter (Victor Moore) who looks like a snide old deacon, and a young fellow (Dick Powell) who can't decide just how honest is honest enough. Toothy Cass Daley, the pauper's Beatrice Lillie, may tickle groundlings. For others there is a very shrewd little slapfooted dance performed by Cy Landry as an Indian...