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Dispatches from Toender, Denmark reported that two British reconnaissance planes, apparently on a photographing mission, also dropped three or four bombs in the middle of the island, then escaped westward with German pursuit planes chasing them. This was at 3 A.M. EST and other reports said there was renewed air activity and machine gun fire over Sylt at 9 A.M. EST. But no bombs were dropped...
...TUESDAY-NIGHT ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR." MAY I CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT "ODDITORIUM OF THE AIR" IS OWNED BY MYSELF AND APPLIED TO MY OWN "BELIEVE IT OR NOT" PROGRAM, SPONSORED BY ROYAL CROWN COLA, FRIDAYS OVER 89 CBS STATIONS FROM 10:30 TO II PM (EST...
...lover of word games, playful mental feats, he is often to be found contorted on the floor, acting out some far-fetched pun.* Battling with a fellow commissioner on a point of law, he recently sent him a memorandum containing the following: "As Coke would have said, id est quod cursum equorum facit."† As a radical, Frank is not so uncompromising as shillelagh-artists like Corcoran, Old-Testament purists like Cohen, bouncers like Henderson. Least hardboiled, most likable of the New Dealers, he is nevertheless the most daring and original theorist among them...
...Princess Dolgoruki is told tenderly and tearfully in "Katia," the new French film at the Fine Arts. A gushing romance not entirely free from 10c novellette effects, "Katia" manages to stir up cavalier emotions in an audience hardened by Clark Gable and Joan Crawford. Despite its shallow "profundity" qui est tres francais, the dialogue sounds surprisingly convincing in the mouths of Alexander and his entourage, who achieved movie sentimentality even before the invention of celluloid. By no means historically faithful, "Katia" catches the spirit of the era it depicts--perhaps because Alexandrine Russia was still so desperately French...
Director Hawks has speeded up even the dialogue by forcing his actors to speak 240 words a minute (average conversational speed - 90 words a minute). Rough est spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom's whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic. Synthetic sample: "What does he [Ralph Bellamy] look like?" Editor Burns: "Oh, he looks like that movie actor-Ralph Bellamy...