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Bone and Gristle. Fifty-year-old George is childless, disinclined to marry again. Once he was reported engaged to the Countess of Craven. The Countess' mother denied the rumor, but added: "I may state, however, that my daughter and the King of Greece have been close friends for about 15 years." A year before that, while Edward VIII was cruising in the Adriatic, King George invited him to dine with him-"alone." Cousin Edward arrived with Mrs. Simpson. A few days later Edward invited Cousin George to dine with him alone. George arrived with his friend...
...Frank Craven knows the urchins around the corner of Forsyth and Delancey Streets in Manhattan's lower East Side. He watches one of them grow into a scrappy little pug (James Cagney) who almost wins the world's championship, another become a sultry, sirenic dancer (Ann Sheridan), another a sneering gangster named Googi (Elia Kazan),still another a willowy, clean-cut composer (Arthur Kennedy...
City for Conquest (Warner). With the help of Thornton Wilder, Hollywood gratefully learned a new way to spin a yarn. In Our Town, cinematized last spring, wise-eyed Frank Craven appeared on the screen as a rustic sage drawling philosophic comments on the passing events...
City for Conquest, like We Who Are Young (TIME, Sept. 30), borrows this technique to point up the clamoring struggle for existence which supposedly typifies Manhattan. This time Philosopher Craven wears a beard and the shaggy rags of a stumblebum, wanders in and out of the lives of the characters, seeing all, knowing all, interpreting...
...Town (William Holden, Martha Scott, Thomas Mitchell. Fay Bainter. Guy Kibbee, Frank Craven: TIME. June...