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...tough competition: on such big wartime stories as General Wavell's appointment as Viceroy of India and Sir Stafford Cripps's resignation from the British War Cabinet, both of which were handled on a "hold for release" basis, Reuters inexplicably scored first. Now, by either hook or crook, Reuters had done it again. Looking at the past, U.S. newsmen looked at their future prospects for Government-controlled news with foreboding...
...WOMAN IN RED - Anthony Gilbert - Smith & Durrell ($2). A jobless and desperate English girl finally gets a place in a sinister London household ruled by a red-wigged old lady with murderous intentions. Private Detective Crook rescues the damsel and clears out the villainous nest. An excellent thriller...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...
When Simplifier Littlewood sent a rough draft of his work to Shaw the response was "By hook or crook get it published without waiting to make it any better. Then advienne que pourra...
Pittsburgh (Universal) is a pretentious attempt to picture the coarseness, the turbulent vigor and the ambition of the big steel town. The film never gets beyond the coarseness. As a coal miner who marries the boss's daughter and by hook & crook becomes a boss himself, John Wayne is a thoroughly stereotyped Hollywood heel. Marlene Dietrich, cast as a rough diamond, looks like a phony one. For denouement, Pearl Harbor arrives to engulf all the characters in a spurious blaze of patriotism. Pittsburgh looks more like slag than good wartime metal...