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Best picture of 1942 to New York City's cinecritics, who made their annual choices last week, was Noel Coward's profile of a British destroyer, In Which We Serve; best male performance was James Cagney's in Yankee Doodle Dandy, best job of direction John Farrow's of Wake Island. The Russian-made documentary, Moscow Strikes Back, won a special award as best "war fact" film. For top honors among actresses, the 18 voting critics passed over an armful of notables, chose a young woman whose name means nothing at all to most cinegoers: Agnes...
Born. To Cinemactress Maureen O'Sullivan, 31, mate of Tarzan on the screen, wife of Lieut. Commander John Farrow of the Royal Canadian Navy off it: a son, 9 Ib. 8 oz.; in Hollywood...
...extent which precluded its proceeding to its final destination." When Tokyo announced last week that the Japanese would severely punish four captured airmen for their "inhuman act" in bombing Tokyo, everyone thought it was more Jap eyewash. Then the Japs came out with names and addresses (Lieut. William J. Farrow, of Darlington, S.C.; Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Dallas, Tex.; Sergeant Harold A. Spatz, Lebo, Kans.; Corporal Jacob D. Deshazer, of Madras...
...strictly military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...
...Wisconsin's dairy country, tank trucks lug thousands of gallons of milk in their stainless steel bellies, to plants where it is turned to butter and cheese, or condensed and powdered for storing. In Iowa, where more than 2,000,000 sows will farrow in the spring, farmers have begun to think about the hog shelters they will have to slap together, of boards in the shape of inverted Vs or lean-tos thrown against fence corners. Everywhere barns are piled high with hay, oats, alfalfa and corn to feed the new crop of pigs and calves...