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...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Dvorak's Carnaval Overture, Paul Creston's Threnody, Jacques Ibert's Divertissement, finale of Haydn's Symphony No. 88. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Silvestre Revueltas' Sensemayá, Dvorak's "New World" Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
...scoundrel"-i.e., he is not to be mistaken for a human being. Georges Duroy (George Sanders)-Bel Ami to his lady friends-is a scoundrel, at the very least. Starting all but penniless, he climbs aboard Journalist John Carradine's friendship; charms Carradine's brainy wife (Ann Dvorak) into working for him; draws her widowed friend (Angela Lansbury) into a hopeless infatuation; sets a publisher's virtuous wife (Katherine Emery) burning with ill-repressed desire for him; exploits the virginal love of her daughter (Susan Douglas) ; makes a pass (unsuccessful) at devout Frances Dee; contracts a convenience...
...highly polished posturings. Director Lewin also sets himself the impossible task of trying to clean up a naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part which Maupassant thought of as a very shady lady (prostitute, except in Hollywood), is played by Marie...
...amiable little story involves four department-store salesgirls (Claire Trevor, Gail Russell, Jane Wyatt, Ann Dvorak) who long for a flashy stage setting to help them catch millionaire husbands. They hit on the scheme of pooling their room rents and leasing a $300-a-month Long Island house. A nice retired saleslady (Billie Burke) agrees to act as their mother. After a bit of high-pressure persuasion, the store's pinchpenny fop of a floorwalker (Adolphe Menjou) is dragged along as a window-dressing husband & father...