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Died. Woodbridge Strong ("Woody") Van Dyke II, 53, ace cinedirector (The Thin Man, Marie Antoinette, Trader Horn, White Shadows of the South Seas), tireless tippler, practical jokester; in Brentwood, Calif. A master of the tools of his trade, he directed everything from serials to spectacles. He shot the supercolossal Marie Antoinette in 67 days, The Thin Man in 17. He called Greta Garbo "kid," joined every organization in sight, including the Elks, the I.W.W., the Masons, the Socialist Party, the Navajo and Nez Perce tribes...
...week. Some of the efforts met with student approval. For example: Fleming's commentary on undergraduate life last winter, "The Leaning Tower of Ivory"; the organization's only semi-experimental shows -- Louis Eno's and John Lawlor's "radio music dramas"; a couple of plays by Milton Van Dyke...
...famous lawyer Ronald Coleman hadn't worn a mustache and a van dyke, he would have lost his legal look, and "The Talk of the Town" would have been minus it's one really novel feature. But not even a clean-shaven Coleman could have slowed down the pace of this fast-stepping comedy. Technical errors and a few kernels of corn keep it from the top, but it still ranks high among the year's better pictures...
...Harvard Radio Workshop will begin its 1942-43 program with a fantasy on the evacuation of Dunkirk by Milton Van Dyke '44, Workshop member. The play, "Take My Drum to England," will be the first of a series of indefinite length to be given every Wednesday at 9 o'clock on the Crimson Network. It will be given on November 4, a week from this Wednesday...
...high-pressure glamor boy, Dyke is a practical advertising man. He is more concerned with "the advertising approach" than with advertisments, with the orderly definition of the problem, the basic research and the step-by-step planning which have made advertising the machine tool for selling the products of mass production. He sees the job to be done as an advertising job, but with this big difference: in peace, advertising sold the people plenty and pleasure; in war, advertising must sell them understanding of sacrifice and harsh restriction...