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Married. Ringgold Wilmer ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 31, Hollywood writer (Woman of the Year), son of the late great humorist; and Radio Actress Frances Chaney Lardner, 27, widow of Ring's brother David, war correspondent killed near Aachen; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
...Myris Chaney, who caused a brief flurry of headlines in 1942 when she was taken up as a dancer by Eleanor Roosevelt and given an OCD job, was back in the news as a landlord. Now a milliner in San Francisco, she had solved her housing problem by buying an apartment building with her husband and moving in. Chaney & husband said they charged tenants the same old rent. OPA claimed an overcharge and sued for triple damages...
...Winter's Tale" is one of Shakespeare's quite minor comedies, despite the major effort now on the boards. The present production ambitiously leaves the book almost intact, and expensively surrounds it with more drapery and costumed elaboration (credit Stewart Chaney) than theatre-goers have seen in a month of twelfth-nights...
First released some ten years ago as a horror film with Lon Chaney displaying his acid-distorted profile, "Phantom of the Opera" has had its face lifted, this time the gruesome details being definitely in a minor role. The new technicolor production's efforts are centered on the operatic background and on a cleverly handled romance, rather than depending on sheer horror to draw, the flocks to the box-office. The result is a thoroughly enjoyable picture, thanks to well proportioned bits of music, color, comedy, horror, and yes, even romance...
...Phantom of the Opera (Universal) contains more opera than phantom, more trills than thrills. In this it differs from the original Phantom, which Universal produced in the shock-absorbing '20s as a shivery vehicle for the late multiform Lon Chaney. The 1943 Phantom is bantam-sized Claude Rains, who attempts to terrify by sheer force of character, scar tissue and Technicolor. Scuttling about in a robin's-egg blue mask, Cinemactor Rains scares nobody but his fellow cinemactors...