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...bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson becomes Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean theater. Hulking (6 ft., 260 lb.), happy-natured "Jumbo" Wilson will merge his old Middle East command with all operations between Gibraltar and the Levant. Crisp, experienced General Sir Harold Alexander, who had been General Eisenhower's No. 1 deputy, remains in Italy as top commander there. With General Sir Bernard Paget, who modernized the British Army's battle training at home, as Jumbo Wilson's deputy in the Middle East, the Mediterranean thus becomes an all-British theater (although U.S. units may remain there...
...newsroom bulletin board of the New York World-Telegram went a directive on crisp writing (to save newsprint). The directive's author: Scripps-Howard Editor in Chief George B. Parker. Its message...
...Sothern, one of the smartest comediennes in the business. In part it is due to a crisp script, which manages to lather up a good deal of apt comic comment on the lives and habits of U.S. defense workers. The film's central characters are Good Girl Maisie Revere (Miss Sothern in her sixth Maisie picture) and Bad Girl Iris (Jean Rogers). They are sidelighted by a cocky test pilot, for whom Maisie falls hard, and by a bolt & nut man-the chinny type who assures every new girl in the plant that he knows all the angles...
Thousands Cheer (M.G.M.) is not to be confused with the crisp, memorable As Thousands Cheer which Irving Berlin and Moss Hart brought to Broadway a decade ago. M.G.M. reportedly paid $25,000 for that show and its bull's-eye title back in 1935, but has taken its own aim from there on. The MGMarksmen ring no resounding bell, but they do bag 1) an average musical wartime romance (Private Gene Kelly v. Colonel's-Daughter Kathryn Grayson), 2) a brisk, hefty variety show featuring a clutch of M.G.M. stars and three bands (Kay Kyser, Bob Crosby, Benny...